Quotes about Progress
No one coasts into Christlikeness. Any progress in godliness requires Spirit-filled effort and purpose.
— Donald Whitney
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
— Dorothy Day
People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
— Dorothy Day
Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
— Dorothy Sayers
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
— Carl Sagan
Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
— Duke Ellington
History can never be changed, but it can be healed.
— Dutch Sheets
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
A Dreamer is a person whose life is in motion.
— Bruce Wilkinson
Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.
— Simon Sinek
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
— James Freeman Clarke