Progress

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  • I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
        Henry Ford   Best?
  • If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  • With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.
        Unknown   Best?
  • The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
        William Faulkner   Best?
  • What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
        Swedish Proverb   Best?
  • Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  • With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • The beginning is the most important part of the work.
        Plato   Best?
  • Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps.
        Unknown   Best?
  • All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.
        W. E. B. DuBois   Best?
  • Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
        James Bryant Conant   Best?
  • Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
        Jean Paul Richter   Best?
  • Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
        Plato   Best?
  • In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
        Peter McWilliams   Best?
  • Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
        Christina Baldwin   Best?
  • You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
        Henry Ford   Best?
  • Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
        Russell Baker   Best?
  • Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
        E. F. Schumacher   Best?
  • If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
        Robert X. Cringely   Best?
  • Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
        Rich Cook   Best?
  • All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
        Samuel Butler   Best?
  • I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
        Gary Trudeau   Best?
  • If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.
        George Winters   Best?
  • I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
        Edgar Bergen   Best?
  • A motion to adjourn is always in order.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
        Gore Vidal   Best?
  • Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
        William Cobbett   Best?
  • Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.
        Thomas Fuller   Best?
  • Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • My husband is exceedingly busy. For some time the talk of his going had been slack, but just now again there seems to be a move to get him sent to the front!
        Sarojini Naidu   Best?
  • No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
        Baudjuin   Best?
  • Today not possible--tomorrow possible.
        Eternal Grand Master H.U. Lee   Best?
  • Agree with yourself and you will agree with others. Agree with others and you will not agree with yourself.
        Nadia Key   Best?
  • We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. (Lecture at Vassar College, May 14, 1921)
        Marie Curie   Best?

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