Quotes about Progress
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The surest poison is time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson