1,930 Quotes About Progress

Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.

Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.

It is better to try and fail than to wonder what if.

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.

The whole point of the physical experience is the expansion beyond that which Is. That’s why eternity is eternal.That’s why there is something more than Now.That’s why there is eternally more.Always has been, always will be.

We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

The probable accumulation of the surpluses of revenue beyond what can be applied to the payment of the public debt... merits the consideration of Congress. Shall it lie unproductive in the public vaults?...Or shall it rather be appropriated to the improvements of roads, canals, rivers, education, and other great foundations of prosperity and union

If everyday you keep getting better, you end up being the best.