progress quotes

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

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

No great thing is created suddenly.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

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

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

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.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

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

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

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

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

A jug fills drop by drop.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

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.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

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.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

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

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

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.

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

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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.

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.

Well begun is half done.

Change in all things is sweet.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

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

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.