Pastoral Resources

I think the people who have really followed my career from the time I was seven years old can see my steady progress and see the type of person and athlete I am.

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans.

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.