Quotes about Progress

Congratulate yourself if you have broken the monotony of a conventional age

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.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engrafted with a foreign stock.

Wherever a man comes, there comes a revolution. The old is for slaves.

The truest test of civilization is not the census, size of cities, or crops; but the kind of man the country turns out.

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.

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.

Truths will harmonize; and as for the falsities and mistakes, they will speedily die of themselves.

It's not the destination, it's the journey.

Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.

academic or material advancement does not necessarily confer wisdom. As someone rightly quipped, "It may be a smartphone, but it is not a wise phone.