Quotes about Progress
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
— William Faulkner
Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.
— William Golding
The only way forward is to never look back.
— William Goldman
No matter how deep we have gone, there is more.
— Heidi Baker
When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started.
— Henri Nouwen
Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
— Henri Matisse
We can with confidence set a goal to make this Christmas brighter than the last and each year that follows brighter still. The trials of mortality may increase in intensity, yet for us, darkness need not increase if we focus our eyes more singly on the light that streams down on us as we follow the Master. He will lead us and help us along the path that leads upward to the home for which we yearn.
— Henry B. Eyring
You cannot stay the way you are and go with God.
— Henry Blackaby
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other....
— Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
— Henry Ford
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
— Henry Ford