Quotes about Progress
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
Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
— Mark Twain
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
— Samuel Johnson
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
— Henry Ford
The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
— Lou Holtz
Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
— Joyce Meyer
Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.
— Gloria Steinem
If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.
— Mike Posner
I'm always trying to think of ways to make something more efficient. If I have to do something once, that's fine. If I have to do it twice, I'm kind of annoyed. And if I have to do it three times, I'm going to try to automate it.
— Tobias Lutke
A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.
— Gordon Hinckley