Quotes about Progress

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.

I know I am getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.

It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.

It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.

With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.

Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.