Quotes about Progress

If you can't fly, then run, if you can't walk run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

You can't change the fruit without changing the root.

This did not happen in spite of the chronos season; it happened because of what was taking place in and through the chronos season.

One day the people of the world will want peace so much that the governments will have to get out of their way and give it to them.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation. All we can do, and that human wisdom can do, is to provide that the change shall proceed by insensible degrees. This has all the benefits which may be in change, without any of the inconveniences of mutation.

Untried forms of government may, to unstable minds, recommend themselves even by their novelty.

I wished to warn the people against the greatest of all evils,—a blind and furious spirit of innovation, under the name of reform.