Quotes about Progress

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engrafted with a foreign stock.

Wherever a man comes, there comes a revolution. The old is for slaves.

The truest test of civilization is not the census, size of cities, or crops; but the kind of man the country turns out.

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.

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.

Truths will harmonize; and as for the falsities and mistakes, they will speedily die of themselves.

It's not the destination, it's the journey.

Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.

academic or material advancement does not necessarily confer wisdom. As someone rightly quipped, "It may be a smartphone, but it is not a wise phone.

Colonel Cathcart was impervious to absolutes. He could measure his own progress only in relationship to others, and his idea of excellence was to do something at least as well as all the men his own age who were doing the same thing even better.

It is true that there have been other religions with millions of adherents, but it is also true that the existence and progress of the Church is something unique in history to say nothing of the fact that Christianity has attracted to itself the profoundest thinkers of the human race, and is in no way hindered by the ever-advancing tide of human knowledge. G. Thomas