Quotes About Advancement

Time is the greatest innovator.

It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.

I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.

To try to be better is to be better.

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat; that is progress.

Always remember that the soundest way to progress in any organization is to help the man ahead of you to get promoted.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

Progress - the stride of God!

Good is not good, where better is expected.

Better is the enemy of the good.

The profits of good luck are perishable; if you build on fortune, you build on sand; the more advancement you achieve, the more dangers you run.

All reformers are bachelors.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Medieval Technology? The Middle Ages invented, among other things, the crank, the horse collar, eyeglasses, the flying buttress, the stirrup, the windmill, the wheelbarrow, printing, firearms, paper, the canal lock, the compass, the rudder, the mechanical clock, the spinning wheel, and the treadle.

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

We're still not where we're going, but we're not where we were.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Progress means taking risks, for you can't steal home and keep your foot on third base.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

You know, my children, that humanity advances only by forming itself an ideal and endeavoring to realize it. Every passion has its ideal, which is modified by that of the whole.