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Quotes about Progress

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Congratulate yourself if you have broken the monotony of a conventional age
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engrafted with a foreign stock.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever a man comes, there comes a revolution. The old is for slaves.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truest test of civilization is not the census, size of cities, or crops; but the kind of man the country turns out.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
- 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
Truths will harmonize; and as for the falsities and mistakes, they will speedily die of themselves.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not the destination, it's the journey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson