Quotes about Progress

All of history a rehearsal for its own extinction

And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.

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.