Quotes About Progress

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

The future does not belong to men.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

The footprints of a free-minded man are always towards the forward direction.

In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

We have the data to prove to men that gender equality is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win.

Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!