Quotes about Progress

It is part of the cure to want to be cured.

de Chardin said, "Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We would like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet, it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability — and that it may take a very long time. Above all, trust in the slow work of God, our loving vine-dresser.

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

What I really think is going to happen over time is technology is going to change the way we live for the good for the environment.

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.

Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.

God isn't keeping a record of each time we fall, but He is excited about our progress, and we should be excited, too!

We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.