Quotes About Progress

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

Nothing quite new is perfect.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Inch by inch it's all a cinch, by the yard it's hard. Go for it -- no matter how slow or long the process seems at first.

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

That's the only way to get where you want to go: one step at a time.

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

Not problems so much. Just opportunities to learn patience.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Nothing fails like failure.

Fresh newsprint, good coffee, assorted texts, some messages on her BlackBerry, what more could the modern world offer?

Bread and dripping, Dorothy had mentioned. You couldn't offer that to man or boy now, not because they wouldn't eat it, although they wouldn't, but because meat doesn't produce dripping any more. The meat isn't real meat any more. Even when it looks like meat, it's something else.

For the past is not fixed: it changes as we change, and we look back and perceive in it different messages, different patterns. Our past selves speak to our future selves. We are part of a continuing process.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement.

Margaret Frith

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." ? Margaret Fuller

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The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.