Progress Quotes

“You can't say civilisation don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way, and in every invention they make life a bit easier.”

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

“This is a great country, but fortunately for you, it is not perfect. There is much to be done to bring about complete equality. Remove hunger. Bring reality closer to theory and democratic principles.”

“I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever "fixed" at the Philadelphia Convention. Nor do I find the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice exhibited by the Framers particularly profound.”

“Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.”

“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.”

“Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.”

“Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.”

“The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.”

“The universal utilisation of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.”

“If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power.”

“One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.”

“No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.”

“You've got to vote, vote, vote. That's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.”

“I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.”

“If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”

“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”

“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”

“We must always set the bar high, otherwise we do not progress.”

“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”

“We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.”

“While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill: little better understood, little better practised now than three or four thousand years ago.”

“But America is a great, unwieldy body. Its progress must be slow. It is like a large fleet sailing under convoy. The fleetest sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest.”

“It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.”

“Make measurable progress in reasonable time.”