Quotes About Progress

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

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

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

For more than five years, I'd made little progress with my efforts at quiet diplomacy—for one thing, the Soviet leaders kept dying on me.

Preparing for the future must begin, as always, with our children. We need to set for them new and more rigorous goals.

It seems to me that America is constantly reinventing what America means.

Big Cabinet meeting on our program through Justice dept. to wipe out legal discriminations against women. We've changed 27 laws, have 60 more in process & today approved some more.

History is made by men and women of vision and courage. Tonight freedom is on the march.

To use a computer analogy, we are running twenty-first-century software on hardware last upgraded 50,000 years ago or more. This may explain quite a lot of what we see in the news.

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Benjamin Disraeli had anticipated Erewhon's fears in his novel Coningsby: The mystery of mysteries, he wrote, is to view machines making machines, a spectacle that fills the mind with curious and even awful speculation.

The best measure of success is how you deal with failure

Nuestra democracia, con todos su fallos, es un logro inmenso de la Humanidad, Bruna. El resultado de muchos siglos de esfuerzo y sufrimiento. Escucha, el mundo se mueve, la sociedad se mueve, y cuanto más democrática, más movilidad y capacidad para cambiarla.

Podemos mejorar. Pero para eso tenemos que creer en las posibilidades de la democracia, y defenderla, y trabajar para perfeccionarla. Ten confianza.

Madame Curie se concentró en el estudio de la medición de las sustancias radiactivas, creó un servicio de autenticación de esas medidas y definió el patrón internacional del radio, algo esencial tanto para la industria como para las aplicaciones médicas.

Por primera vez en la historia de la Humanidad hay tantas autoras como autores; por primera vez nuestra voz es tan pública como la de ellos

Women have always fought not just for survival, but for the meaning of the struggle - now, they are organizing, grouping and pushing forward, not merely for new definitions, but for the right to define.

One just had to be content with what had happened so far.

You mustn't think so far ahead. Just think about tomorrow, and then take one thing at a time.

Which was strange, like watching a tangle of loose threads unravel and plait themselves into a single braided cord, stretching ahead into the future.

If she had learned nothing else, she had learned that every age brings its own rewards. Rosamunde Pilcher, Flowers In the Rain & Other Stories