Quotes about Progress

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

The surest poison is time.

What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Congratulate yourself if you have broken the monotony of a conventional age

Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.