Quotes about Progress

We need to realise that not everyone can take the path to overnight success. Take actors such as Rajkummar Rao and Vicky Kaushal - they have built their work and profile over the years to get to where they are.

You've got to be before you can do and do before you can have.

Dreams grow if you grow.

I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world around him; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

But the changes from the crab apple to the pippin, from the wolf and fox to the house dog, from the charger of Henry V to the brewer's draught horse and the racehorse, are real; for here Man has played the god, subduing Nature to his intention, and ennobling or debasing life for a set purpose. And what can be done with a wolf can be done with a man.

If we desire a certain type of civilisation and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

Construction cumbers the ground with institutions made by busybodies. Destruction clears it and gives us breathing space and liberty.

But I will now go further, and confess to you that men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

and after all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.