Never discourage anyone… who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

—Samuel Butler

About Samuel Butler

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Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest...

More quotations from Samuel Butler

The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point, he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief anymore. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.

—Samuel Butler

All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

—Samuel Butler

Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.

—Samuel Butler

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

—Samuel Butler

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

—Samuel Butler

More quotations tagged with “progress”

I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

—Russell Baker

The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

—George Bernard Shaw

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.

—Barbara Hall

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

—Ellen Glasgow

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Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.