Quotes About Progress

Even if you are what your parents made you, if you stay that way, it's your own darn fault. We're not going to undo the past. Let's focus on making the necessary changes to improve your functioning.

The solution of mankind's most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining some degree of independence of it.

The grand premise of religion is that man is able to surpass himself; that man who is part of this world may

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.

Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The only way to predict the future is to create it.

I shall adopt new Muse as fast as they appear to be true Muse.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Fourscore and seven years ago...

Lincoln on Grant: He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.

From this day forward, let no human make war upon any other human. Let no Terran agency conspire against this new beginning. And let no man consort with alien powers. And to all the enemies of humanity, seek not to bar our way, for we shall win through, no matter the cost!

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.