Quotes About Progress

Deliberately, as if committing himself to something, he stepped forward and walked down the path to the porch and knocked on the front door.

Always keep this point in mind: the word "delay" means what it says: late. Delayed isn't never, no matter how much it may feel like that at age fifteen or even twenty-five.

Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly comparing what you have now with what you want. That type of self criticism is significantly deterring.

doing less harm is no longer enough

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

by the mile it's a pile, by the yard it's hard, by the inch it's a cinch!

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. —PABLO PICASSO

In us humans evolution has now become conscious of itself. We have the freedom to choose or reject opportunities to carry the evolutionary adventure into a new future. The fact that we don't always seem to be making much headway-and indeed often seem to be regressing-is not sufficient reason for discouragement.

We ask ourselves: have we made progress? We are almost never aware of it. Only with effort and discipline do we become fully conscious. If we keep a journal, now and then we are startled when we peruse past entries. Worries, fears, preoccupations of the previous year seem to have evanesced. The greatest terrors and strongest urgencies of five years ago now surprise, embarrass, or encourage us. Was this me? Why was it that I could not gauge it as it was lived?

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them.

Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

Yesterday, a shaft of light cut into the darkness…. For the first time, an agreement has been reached on bringing the forces of nuclear destruction under international control.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. [Address before the United Nations, September 25 1961]

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

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.