If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
All our progress is an unfolding like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end. though you can render no reason.
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone that even the dullest man in these bright days knows more than any man of say the Eighteenth Century and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous…. The great masses of men even in this inspired republic are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant they are dishonest they are cowardly they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge.
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance and that in the end progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Progress is not an accident not a thing within human control but a beneficent necessity … due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect.
Certainly it is true that the constant striving for something betterthe price of progressadds to the total of human happiness. It stimulates industry by creating new wants. It multiplies opportunities for the employment of brain and brawn. And it bridges the gaps between peaks of prosperity and helps take up the slack during times of reaction.
In a progressive country change is constant; … change … is inevitable.
Progress mans distinctive mark alone Not Gods and not the beasts: God is they are; Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance and men must walk at least before they dance.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress no matter how slow.
Usually terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all but just terrible things.
MALEFACTOR n. The chief factor in the progress of the human race.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
Those who do the most for the worlds advancement are the ones who demand the least.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
All our progress is an unfolding like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end. though you can render no reason.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it cant be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress there is disintegration.
I will go anywhere as long as it be forward.
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it.
Progress is a line through a list.
Sometimes the things that hold you down are the things that hold you up.
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone that even the dullest man in these bright days knows more than any man of say the Eighteenth Century and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous…. The great masses of men even in this inspired republic are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant they are dishonest they are cowardly they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge.
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime but I?m afraid it?s heading in the wrong direction.
We trained hard but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized.
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with facts for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance and that in the end progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step but you have to take it.
Progress is not an accident not a thing within human control but a beneficent necessity … due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect.
Progress is not created by contented people.
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
Progress always involves risk; you can?t steal second base and keep your foot on first base.
Certainly it is true that the constant striving for something betterthe price of progressadds to the total of human happiness. It stimulates industry by creating new wants. It multiplies opportunities for the employment of brain and brawn. And it bridges the gaps between peaks of prosperity and helps take up the slack during times of reaction.
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
Without deviation progress is not possible.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
The best of good acts in Gods sight is that which is constantly attended to although in a small degree.