Quotes about Progress
Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.
- John Owen
Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.
- Charles Spurgeon
The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
- George Bernard Shaw
Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.
- George Bernard Shaw
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
- Edmund Burke
I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.
- Albert Einstein
That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.
- Calvin Coolidge
Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.
- Charles Dickens
A man is worked on by what he works on.
- Frederick Douglass
It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.
- Henry David Thoreau