The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

Revolutions go not backward.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

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.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

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.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

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.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

High-quality early-childhood programs and health coverage have expanded, and the number of mentoring relationships for at-risk youth has risen dramatically. That progress is encouraging, but it’s not evenly distributed.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Developing nations want to become developed nations.