Quotes About Progress

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.

Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

Speed his plow.

At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

Life is so good, and it gets better every day.

George, I know you're tired. But President Lincoln, he didn't free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves."-George's Grandmother.