Quotes about Progress

The time we lose is not in overdoing what we are about, but in doing nothing.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Live as if you already are what you wish to become.

There is no standing still, Life goes on, and is always bringing forth its Realities, which Way soever it goeth.

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

Mr. Stanley has done his part with untiring energy; good judgment in the teeth of very serious obstacles. His helpmates turned out depraved blackguards, who, by their excesses at Zanzibar and elsewhere, had ruined their constitutions, and prepared their systems to be fit provender for the grave. They had used up their strength by wickedness, and were of next to no service, but rather downdrafts and unbearable drags to progress.

The education of the world is a terrible one, and it has come down with relentless rigour on Africa from the most remote times! What the African will become after this awfully hard lesson is learned, is among the future developments of Providence. When He, who is higher than the highest, accomplishes His purposes, this will be a wonderful country, and again something like what it was of old, when Zerah and Tirhaka flourished, and were great.

God uses change to change us. He doesn't use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

God didn't make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.

It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.

When God says go forward, don't even think about standing still.