Quotes About Progress

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

If there is one true statement true of every living person it must be this: he hasn't achieved his full potential.

Parenting is a learn-as-you-go profession.

Experience is by industry achieved, and perfected by the swift course of time

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

'Tis a common proof,That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;But when he once attains the upmost round,He then unto the ladder turns his back,Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degreesBy which he did ascend.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

What's past is prologue.

O! when degree is shaked,Which is the ladder to all high designs,The enterprise is sick.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

These most brisk and giddy-paced times.

O brave new world,That has such people in't!

And in such indexes, although small pricksTo their subsequent volumes, there is seenThe baby figure of the giant massOf things to come.

What you doStill betters what is done.

Dwindle, peak, and pine.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

I am slow of study.

We cannot all be masters.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Our new heraldry is hands not hearts.

We that are in the vaward of our youth.