Quotes about Progress

The big idea of education, from first to last, is the idea of a better place. Not a better place where you are, because you want it to be better and have been to school and learned to make it better, but a better place somewhere else. In order to move up, you have got to move on.

One must begin in one's own life the private solutions that can only in turn become public solutions.

become good. It would become beautiful. It would make us happy, and not with the future happiness of political promising. It would make us happy as soon as we began to do it.

Troy went into debt and bought his new equipment because he didn't want to be held back by demanding circumstances.

VI We travelers, walking to the sun, can't see Ahead, but looking back the very light That blinded us shows us the way we came, Along which blessings now appear, risen As if from sightlessness to sight, and we, By blessing brightly lit, keep going toward That blessed light that yet to us is dark.

The conversation thus established was a poor thing, Tol knew, so far as his own participation in it went, but it was something to go on. It gave him hope. And now I want to tell youhow this courtship, conducted for so long in secret in Tol's mind alone, became public. This is the story of Miss Minnie's first consent, the beginning of their story together, which is one of the dear possessions of the history of Port William.

The future was coming to me, but I had not so much as lifted a foot to go to it.

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.