Life goes on, having nowhere else to go.
—Diane Ackerman
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
—Thomas Sowell
If this ever goes anywhere, it will be because it’s right: right time, right intentions, right everything.
—Steph Campbell in Depths
Blame someone else and get on with your life.
—Alan Woods
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
—Tom Robbins
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
—Robert A. Heinlein
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are usually right.
—Eugene V. Debs
What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion.
—Henry Miller
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
—A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
—Ogden Nash
All progress is experimental.
—John Jay Chapman
There is always the need to carry on.
—Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
—James Thurber
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
—Marcus Aurelius