Quotes about Progress

Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes.

Paul felt life changing around him. The conditions of youth were gone.

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

You are one in seven billion—your progress is not meant for you alone.

If you are satisfied with the results you are now getting, why change? If you are not satisfied, why not experiment?

Remember that successful action is cumulative in its results. Since the desire for more life is inherent in all things, when a man begins to move toward larger life more things attach themselves to him, and the influence of his desire is multiplied.

To leave the road of continual failure, a person must first utter the three most difficult words to say: 'I was wrong.

way to get things done," says Schwab, "is to stimulate competition.

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. -from Song of Myself

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.