Quotes about Progress
To lose Is to learn.
- Anonymous
No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
- Anonymous
Judge each day not by it's harvest, but by the seeds you plant.
- Anonymous
Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
- Anonymous
A mistake is not a failure, but evidence that someone tried to do something.
- Anonymous
Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.
- Audrey Hepburn
Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.
- Henry David Thoreau
It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress, if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.
- GK Chesterton
How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!
- Anne Frank
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.
- John F. Kennedy