Quotes About Progress

The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.

Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.

Either way, things are a lot better — either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.

There must, at a certain point, be a transformation. If not, there is no art.

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

The greater the success, the closer it verges on failure.

Empty the pond to get the fish.

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!

Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are;Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

It's a long lane that knows no turnings.

But little do or can the best of us:That little is achieved through Liberty.

Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

Over the past century and a half, we've gone from harnessing animals—and enduring all the shit they shat—to harnessing the subatomic motion of electrons.

Using the official $1 per day line, we estimate that [from 1970 to 2006] world poverty rates have fallen by 80 percent.

Every obstacle is a gift, every problem is an opportunity for growth.

It is necessary to take down the dysfunctional defense systems but we have to replace them with defenses that work.

This day Time winds th' exhausted chain,To run the twelvemonth's length again.

God knows, I'm no the thing I should be,Nor am I even the thing I could be.

Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.

LeBlanc's law: Later equals never.