Quotes about Progress

The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism.

He is an educated man in the best sense of the word — mindful always that there is no such thing as complete education. We are always going to school, and success consists in striving eternally, but never arriving.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived — forwards.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Man is made and unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons which will destroy him. He also creates the tools with which he will build for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peach. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and their master.

Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.

They themselves are makers of themselves.

All evil is corrective and remedial, and is therefore not permanent. It

Every man is where he is by the law of his being;

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.