Quotes About Progress

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

The story of declining school quality across the twentieth century is, for the most part, a fable," says social scientist Richard Rothstein, whose book The Way We Were? cites a series of similar attacks on American education, moving backward one decade at a time.3 Each generation invokes the good old days, during which, we discover, people had been doing exactly the same thing.

Being afraid of failure isn't at all the same thing as embracing success. In fact, the former gets in the way of the latter.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer's extinguished fire and autumn's drifting smoke.

Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

Self-discovery is a slower process but a more natural one.

Blessed is the era that can honestly claim that it is not a desert wilderness. Woe, however, to the era in which the voices calling in the wilderness have fallen silent, shouted down by the noise of the day, or prohibited, or drowned in the intoxication with progress, or restricted and quiet out of fear and cowardice.

2 years ago I couldn't even spell Graduate and not I are one!

After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.

We grow into our best selves not when we avoid our problems but rather when we embrace them and work through them to resolution.

It's often been said that the only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.

There is no loss without pain. Yet there is no change without loss.

Success is moving from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Failure offered me a better destiny.

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Philippians 3:12 ESV

Successes teach us very little. A successful design doesn't tell us how close to failure it might be.

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.