Quotes about Progress

If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

So decide now that you are worthy of living as a full-grown man who is making progress, and make everything that seems best be a law that you cannot go against. And if you meet with any hardship or anything pleasant or reputable or disreputable, then remember that the contest is now and the Olympic games are now and you cannot put things off any more and that your progress is made or destroyed by a single day and a single action

For it is always true that to whatever point the perfecting of anything leads us, progress is an approach towards this point.

But what says Socrates?—One man finds pleasure in improving his land, another his horses. My pleasure lies in seeing that I myself grow better day by day.

If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see.

If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

I don't want to bring a European city or an east-coast city to the West Coast.

Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

The March on Washington was a defining moment in the history of this country and a great example of our nation truly living up to its creed.

Technology has made our lives both more efficient and more demanding.