"... the United States was not built..." - Quote by John F Kennedy
... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space.
More by John F Kennedy
More on Progress
“Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.”
“No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory than that it should of itself point out the way to the introduction of a more comprehensive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.”
“By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn.”
More on Action
“Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.”
“What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.”
“Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination”