Quotes About Progress

Along with the friction, there must also be growth. This growth will nullify the effect of the friction.

One who is learning to serve should not do the same thing today as he did yesterday. If he is the same today as yesterday, he has squandered his opportunities. If we do not know what the Lord is doing today or what is going to happen today, we are missing the opportunity.

This is the way for us to grow. I hope that the Lord will speak to you concerning your growth, that your growth in life is with the fourth-day lights. The first-day light was good for generating life, good for your rebirth. But, for your growth in life you need the fourth-day lights.

The process of sanctification includes saturation, transformation, growth, and building up.

Our element is unending immaturity.

Good things come in good time.

Well, anybody who cannot embrace the power of Internet is just limiting themselves.

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

Computer machen keine Fehler, aber es ist nun einmal die Natur der Menschen, Fehler zu machen und daraus zu lernen. Nimm ihnen dieses Recht und du nimmst ihnen ihre Menschlichkeit

Any capitalism that is worth its name, or its money, is necessarily on the move, and always from within

The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men are not put into this world to go the path of ease; they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle...We have given our lives to the enterprise, and that is richer and the moral is greater.

The world has a habit of going on.

no society is renewed from the top and every society is renewed from the bottom.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible. ["The Power of Christian Young Men", Address at the Young Men's Christian Association's Celebration, Pittsburgh, October 24, 1914]

A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

A relationship, I think, is, is like a shark, you know, it has to constantly move forward or it dies, and I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.

If you're not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.