Quotes About Progress

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.

I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.

Last week I lost my temper in my karate class. Man, I'm not doing that again until I'm a black belt. Because I can tell you there's a difference between taking karate and receiving karate.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

What man is a man who does not make the world better.

My future's about trying to be a better man

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.

Man I just ended up on everybody guestlist. I'm just doing better than what everybody projected.

I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.