Quotes About Progress

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.

When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.

The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.

The finest mode of transport known to man.

I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.

That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.