Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

It's kind of amazing to see that progress happens over time.

All great things have small beginnings.

Progress is the mother of problems.

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not, it’s inevitable.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

I love to watch times change!

Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

I think it is important to grow. Your fans are growing up with you whether you like it or not. You have to keep it fresh and exciting for them. You have to bring something new to the table each time.

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Times do keep changing - thank God.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Future comes by itself, progress does not.

While the United States of today is not the United States of yesterday there are unmistakable indications that she is also not the United States of tomorrow.

Surely the wake left behind by mankind's forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

We all know deep inside that no country is the same as it was 5 years ago.

With time, everything changes, and there is nothing wrong in that.