Quotes about Progress
Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Everything changes but change itself.
- John F. Kennedy
Change is the law of life.
- John F. Kennedy
There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.
- Marcus Aurelius
The old order changeth, yielding place to new.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.
- Oscar Wilde
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
- Samuel Johnson
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.
- Abraham Lincoln
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
- George Eliot