Quotes About Progress

For it is always true that to whatever point the perfecting of anything leads us, progress is an approach towards this point.

If you resist it a whole month, offer God a sacrifice, because the vice begins to weaken from day one, until it is wiped out altogether.

But what says Socrates?—One man finds pleasure in improving his land, another his horses. My pleasure lies in seeing that I myself grow better day by day.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig; if you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Nothing important comes into being overnight; even grapes or figs need time to ripen. If you say that you want a fig now, I will tell you to be patient. First, you must allow the tree to flower, then put forth fruit; then you have to wait until the fruit is ripe. [8] So if the fruit of a fig tree is not brought to maturity instantly or in an hour, how do you expect the human mind to come to fruition, so quickly and easily?

Study, not in order to add anything to your knowledge, but to make your knowledge better.

You should keep learning as long as you are ignorant, – even to the end of your life, if there is anything in the proverb. And the proverb suits the present case as well as any: As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Nothing great is created in a flash.

that is where you will see true progress embodied, and find someone who has not wasted their time making the journey here from home.

Let go of the past. We must only begin.

It isn't possible to change your behaviour and still be the same person you were before.

At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: I used to be angry every day, then every other day: next every two, next every three days! and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the Gods in thanksgiving.

Soon shall thy arm, UNCONQUER'D STEAM! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying-chariot through the fields of air.

Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?

When modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state always change with them. —Plato

Because they failed to come to grips with the plantation itself, the leaders of Presidential Reconstruction lacked a coherent vision of Southern progress.

The Fourteenth Amendment was a crucial step in transforming, in the words of the Republican editor George William Curtis, a government "for white men" into one "for mankind."34

As history shows, progress is not necessarily linear or permanent. But neither is retrogression.

One can begin with the expansion of the source base available to scholars brought about by the digital revolution. When I began work on Reconstruction, the World Wide Web did not exist (nor did email, so that scholars wasted a lot less of their time than nowadays).

The tide of change rose and then receded, but it left behind an altered landscape.

We have elected to order manufacture upon inhuman lines; why should we ask for humanity in the product?

The only way to reform modern lettering is to abolish it.

E tanto a Grã-Bretanha quando o mundo sabiam que a revolução lançada nestas ilhas não só pelos comerciantes e empresários como através deles, cuja única lei era comprar no mercado mais barato e vender sem restrição no mais caro estava transformando o mundo. Nada poderia detê-la. Os deuses e os reis do passado eram impotentes diante dos homens de negócios e das máquinas a vapor do presente.