As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

因此，进步仅仅意味着更大的权力、更多的利润、更高的生产率、更多的纸张繁荣，所有这些都可以转化为只与大小或规模有关的标准，而不是质量或卓越性。

Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.

因为事情就是这样，别再想以前做过的事了，你知道，因为它可以……不会伤害你，但你会发现自己在过去发生的事情上睡大觉，但你敢于进步，总有进步的空间。

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

相信生活!人类总是要活得更伟大、更宽广、更充实，并不断进步。

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

相信进步并不意味着相信已经取得了任何进展。

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

但是随着冰川的缓慢威胁，萧条开始了。没有人知道它的进展;没有人有任何阻止它的计划。每个人都想让开。

But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

但是，当圣经明确区分创造行为和保存过程时，我们就不能接受渐进的创造过程。

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

变化不一定保证进步，但进步必然需要变化。教育对改变至关重要，因为教育既能创造新的需求，也能满足新的需求。

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

竞争不仅是保护消费者的基础，而且是进步的动力。

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

自负是一切进步的不可逾越的障碍。

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

保守主义抛弃处方，逃避原则，否定进步;它拒绝一切对古代的尊重，对现在没有任何补偿，对未来也没有任何准备。

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

培养一种感恩的态度，对发生在你身上的每一件事表示感谢，要知道每向前迈进一步都是朝着比你目前的状况更大更好的目标迈进的一步。

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

不满足是进步的第一需要。

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

比平均水平多做一点，从那一刻起，我们的进步与付出的努力不成比例地成倍增长。

Doing nothing gets you nothing.

一事无成。

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.

不要等到一切都好起来了。它永远不会完美。总会有挑战、障碍和不完美的条件。那么。现在开始。每走一步，你就会变得越来越强大，越来越熟练，越来越自信，越来越成功。