Quotes About Progress

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

How could something that began so incredibly well be so bad now? The answer: We stopped doing what made the relationship so good in the beginning. It is that simple.

There is a wonderful way to forsee the future: create it.

It's what you learn after you know it all that's important.

Every phase is a foundation for another phase, pay full concentration on your current phase

Out of none, there are some, provided we go beyond some certain norms

If you want to live, you must walk. If you want to live long, you must run.

We made too many wrong mistakes.—Yogi Berra

Everyday is a second chance to redeem yourself.

Life is a quest to find out how much better you can be and higher you can go.

It's nice sometimes to be the river rather than the rock.

Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us."

the knowledge that change can be frightening, that responsibility can, but that the answer to that is not refusing to change or to accept responsibility.

What was interesting was seeing how much of it could work, how much it really would maximize justice, and how it was going to fail. We could learn a lot from that.

We cannot change what has happened. We go on from where we stand. Not even Necessity knows all ends.

Consider Augustus's motto. Hurry more slowly.

There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.

And what he had offered me was exactly everything I most wanted —to make art, to build the future, to help each other become our best selves. "He honors me.

Certainty closes many doors," he replied. "It leads to dogmatism. Souls accept what they know and stop striving upwards.

I also pursue excellence, and Father told me that it can only ever be pursued, never caught—though