Progress Quotes

We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.

We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of man and nations and you will have destroyed all that makes for betterment and progress on Earth.

Successful people don’t wait for everything to be perfect to move forward.

Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of such far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.

One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following in the wake, and it is becoming every day dearer that the solution of any problem can never be attained on racial, or national, or narrow grounds.

It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.

Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I think it will be found that he who speaks with most authority on a given subject is not ignorant of what has been said by his predecessors. He will take his place in a regular order, and substantially add his own knowledge to the knowledge of previous generations.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

Things change pretty rapidly. But they don't change inevitably. They change because you work for it.

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man

I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.

The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

The future is ours to win. But to get there we can't just stand still.

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

Showing up fully exactly where you are is the fastest way to get where you want to go!

All real progress must be slow.

Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

If you are not moving forward, the world is passing you by.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.

Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.

Momentum solves 80% of your problems.

I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward.

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.

Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress.

I think that there's gonna be a lot of work to do in order to consolidate the transformations that I was interested in.

Satisfied is a word I use only in reference to my country, and I'll never be satisfied for my country. For this reasons I go on taking difficult paths, and between a paved road and a footpath that goes up the mountain, I choose the footpath. To the great irritation of my bodyguards.

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

There is always a better way.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.

The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the past. His speeches are generalities from Poor Richard's Almanac. Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo-and today there can be no status quo.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.