Quotes about Progress
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
— Oscar Wilde
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
— Winston Churchill
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
— Edmund Burke
The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children.
— Joyce Banda
I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
— Bishop TD Jakes
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
— Tony Robbins
Change in all things is sweet.
— Aristotle
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
— Khalil Gibran
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
— Epictetus
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
— Alfred Lord Tennyson