Quotes About Progress

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

Slow but steady wins the race.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

Don't take it so much to heart, my friend; put a brick into the hole, and take a look at it every day: you won't be any worse off than before, for even when you had your gold it was of no earthly use to you.

The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course.

Slow and steady wins the race! From The Tortoise and the Hare.

But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up.

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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

Herzen declared that there were "no solutions": history, like nature, was an improvisation, subject to the play of chance.

our changes in height remained unmarked on the door frames, so we grew up tall on our own without proof

If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.

As the polls began closing in the East, with states like New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Virginia going for Barack Obama, it was quickly becoming clear that this would be an especially bad night for racists all across the country.

politics is about the improvement of people's lives." I

Unions gave us the forty-hour workweek, the weekend, and the middle class.

You're not supposed to have to be rich or lucky to have a chance to do great things. Opportunity is supposed to be for everyone. And that's why I'm a Democrat.

We can't afford inaction any longer, and, frankly, there's just no excuse for it. We all want the same thing: for our children and the generations after them to inherit a clean and beautiful planet capable of supporting a healthy human civilization. That goal should transcend politics.

I took the initiative in creating the Internet

When you pray, move your feet." Prayer without action, like optimism without engagement, is passive aggression toward the future. Even

Everyone is interested in what's new. Few people are interested in what's better.

no one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfilment.

Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.