Quotes About Progress

Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

Responsiblity is the great developer of men.

I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.

The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

Men are just like a book - with a beginning, middle and an end.

If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

The world makes way for the man with an idea.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.

I am the best male ally I have ever heard of for women and women's liberation.

But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.