Quotes About Progress

As a company, I'm proud that Nike takes a stand on issues that impact all of us, our athletes, and society as a whole. And I am proud that Nike stands against discrimination in any form. We stand against bigotry. We stand for racial justice. We firmly believe the world can improve.

Obama stands as a signal that this nation will continue to redefine what it means to push beyond the borders of what's possible.

You always have to keep evolving. You're always trying to improve. If you're at a standstill, you're falling behind.

Everyone needs an objective, and everyone needs a goal, and it was frustrating just kind of being at a standstill.

Never try to leap from a standstill.

Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

A wise man once told me that only by leaving someone good can you meet someone better.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

Once a man sees what is possible, and makes just a few changes, a whole new world opens up where he finds opportunities that he couldn't see before.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.

The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.

By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.