Quotes about Progress

We haven't accepted we can't really believe that the most characteristic product of our age of scientific miracles is junk, but that is so. And we still think and behave as though we face an unspoiled continent, with thousands of acres of living space for every man. We still sing "America the Beautiful" as though we had not created in it, by strenuous effort, at great expense, and with dauntless self-praise, an unprecedented ugliness.

In life and leadership, you will make mistakes—and those around you will make mistakes as well. None of us are perfect.

He who began a good work in you will complete it. Don't give up. Press on. No matter how far you feel you've come—or how far you feel you have to go—don't stop now. Even if you miss the mark terribly, today is a new day. Live for "that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed" you.

The older speak life and lessons to the younger, and the younger bring new energy and enthusiasm, pioneering a new way.

You may not see the fruit of your labors instantly, but God himself notices and resides over every seed you are sowing. You are getting through. You are unstoppable.

If you stop dreaming, you get complacent, and complacency never changes the world.

is true. We change not by mustering up willpower but by changing the way we think, which will also involve changing our actions and our social environment. We change indirectly. We do what we can.

Restlessness, therefore, is not to be regretted, but marshaled. Humans live toward.

The way evolution has always worked, a "secular" process in which life's most sacred secret is embedded.

You don't get to a better place with God until you recognize that where you are is not as good.

Turning to him, Spurgeon said, "If you had gone up the way you came down, you could have come down the way you went up.

You would think that the more a man knows and loves God, the deeper he gets into understanding His Word, and the further he progresses in personal holiness, the better he would be at being a watchful man,