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

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

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.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

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

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

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.

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

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

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.

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.

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

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

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

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

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

Africa is on the rise.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

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

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

New roads; new ruts.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

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

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

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

The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.

Africa will thrive.

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.

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.

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.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

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.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

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

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

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