progress quotes

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

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

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

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.

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

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

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

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

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.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

New roads; new ruts.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

Nothing recedes like progress.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

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

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

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.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

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

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

To innovate is not to reform.

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 march of the human mind is slow.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they’ve done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

We’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.