Quotes About Progress

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

I'm working it out, man. I'm working through some stuff, trying to find my way like everyone.

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

As proud as I am of Doo-Wops I feel like, 'Oh, man. People haven't seen nothing. They don't even know what I'm about to do,' and that's what I can't wait to show the world.

The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.

Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man.

Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth?

Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.

Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character.

Man's life is a progress, not a station.

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming.

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

That she does not crouch today where St Paul tried to bind her, she owes to the men who are grand and brave enough to ignore St Paul, and rise superior to his God.

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.