Quotes About Progress

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Men make their own history

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.

The world sucks, man. But Tesla does have a mid-size sedan now, and that's very important to the future.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.

Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.

We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going.

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer-he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.

I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday.

Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.