Quotes about Progress
Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
— Elbert Hubbard
Our only purpose in life is growth.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.
— Seth Godin
Start before you're ready. Good things happen when we start before we're ready.
— Steven Pressfield
I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.
— Stephen Hawking
We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
— Wendell Berry
Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
— Henry David Thoreau
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
— William Howard Taft
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another but above all try something.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.
— George H. W. Bush