Quotes About Progress

O mundo mudou, o senhor sabe. Ou mudamos com ele e prosperamos ou agitamos os punhos para o céu. Prefiro a primeira escolha. E quanto ao senhor, Weaver? O que prefere?

I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

Mr. Stanley has done his part with untiring energy; good judgment in the teeth of very serious obstacles. His helpmates turned out depraved blackguards, who, by their excesses at Zanzibar and elsewhere, had ruined their constitutions, and prepared their systems to be fit provender for the grave. They had used up their strength by wickedness, and were of next to no service, but rather downdrafts and unbearable drags to progress.

The education of the world is a terrible one, and it has come down with relentless rigour on Africa from the most remote times! What the African will become after this awfully hard lesson is learned, is among the future developments of Providence. When He, who is higher than the highest, accomplishes His purposes, this will be a wonderful country, and again something like what it was of old, when Zerah and Tirhaka flourished, and were great.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Useful learning needs to begin where the student is at that time and then builds on what that person knows. The biggest challenge to an educator is what to forgo from the 'old' curriculum in favour of something more relevant. Then

The additional R is that of resistance. When you bring in changes there is opposition from those who do not want to have change. This is to be expected, and yet we continue to be surprised by this resistance when it occurs.

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

Information is the religion of the modern world.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

How little we seem able to do in a lifetime—and how fast the years slip by."42

history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless.

What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?

So many things were new. Everything changed. The past would not hold and could not be held.

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

God uses change to change us. He doesn't use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.

God prunes us when He is about to take us into a new season of growth and expansion.

God didn't make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.

It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.