You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less read more
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
 So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, 
goes but to build up great fortunes, to read more 
 So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, 
goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make 
sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of 
Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. 
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all read more
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
 From lower to the higher next,
 Not to the top, is Nature's text;
  And embryo good, to read more 
 From lower to the higher next,
 Not to the top, is Nature's text;
  And embryo good, to reach full stature,
   Absorbs the evil in its nature. 
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at read more
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.