Quotes About Progress

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

When God's putting His finger on the part of your life that's not working, He's pointing to your next miracle.

If you have never failed, you have never tried anything new.

Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable.

we are the ones we have been waiting for

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Don't just live a life; build one.

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Never skip a step. Skip a step, you'll find five more new ones waiting ahead of you.

This stutter-step of disaster after natural disaster was just a blip next to LED lights, driverless cars, a possible end to poverty through gene-edited crops.

I tell him the Company is the past preying on the future—that we are the future.

wasn't. This stutter-step of disaster after natural disaster was just a blip next to LED lights, driverless cars, a possible end to poverty through gene-edited crops. Mulled wine and stockings over the fireplace. Crisp smell of the six-foot fir that had been cut down so it could be adorned with plastic and glass baubles that polluted the house. As the tree died in celebration, there in our family room. Maybe I was withdrawn during their

She knew where it would all lead, what it always led to in human beings—a decision about what to do. What are we going to do? Where do we go from here? How do we move forward? What is our mission now? As if purpose could solve everything, could take the outlines of what was missing and by sheer will invoke it, make it appear, bring it back to life.

It is less than five hundred years since an entire half of the world was discovered. It is less than two hundred years since the discovery of the last continent. The sciences of chemistry and physics go back scarcely one century.

Sometimes you need to know when to go on to the next thing--for the sake of other people.