Quotes about Progress

Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.

Yes, the world has been different ever since Darwin. But no less exciting, instructing, or uplifting; for if we cannot find purpose in nature, we will have to define it for ourselves.

This is a changing world. It changes from day to day, year to year, and from age to age. Rivers deepen their gorges as they carry more land to the sea. Mountains rise, only to be leveled gradually by winds and rain. Continents rise and sink into the sea. Such are the gradual changes of the physical earth as days add into years and years combine to become ages.

The slow pace of our perfection has to be borne with patience, provided that on our part we always do whatever we can to continue advancing.

If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.

Don't waste time watering a weed hoping to transform it into a flower.

Be brave and take risks… You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.

When you go through a loss, a disappointment or a bad break up, don't expect to come out the same. Expect to come out better off than you were before.

Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.