Quotes about Progress

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.

Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.

The human soul develops up to the time of death.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

For in the nature of things everything that is faith must rise, and everything that rises must converge.

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of courage. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but in expressing them correctly; and we can now see that it is biologically undeniable that unless we harness passion to the service of spirit there can be no progress. Sooner or later, then, and in spite of all our incredulity, the world will take this step— because the greater truth always prevails and the greater good emerges in the end.

For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. So let us mark this day with remebrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled.