Quotes about Progress

What this means is that if you want to grow up and feast on the fullness of God's revelation, you don't do it by jumping from milk to meat. You do it by the way you drink the milk. The milk has to make you a certain kind of discerning person before you can digest the meat.

The aim of leadership is not to demonstrate the superiority of the leader, but to bring out all the strengths of people that will move them forward to the desired goal.

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

Let me daily grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

Do something every day to improve, beautify, and ennoble the life that Christ has purchased with His own blood.

Each day was called a generation, because that in it God generated, or produced, some new portion of his work.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.