progress Quotes

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.