Quotes About Progress

A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past

The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.

Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Life is about growing and evolving. I feel like my life has been in stages, and the stages I went through when I was younger allowed me to grow into the man I am today.

We can land men on the moon, but, for all our mechanical and electronic wizardry, we cannot reproduce an artificial fore-finger that can feel as well as beckon.

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges.

Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

There is a tide in the affairs of men

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.