Quotes About Progress

Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

These details are few and meager. It is not easy for us, in the midst of the luxuries, comforts, and necessities of a later civilization, to realize the conditions of western life previous to 1825. But the situation must be understood if one is to know the life of the boy Lincoln.

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus

It is . . . a melancholy fact that the countries which are most humanitarian, which are most interested in internal improvement, tend to grow weaker compared with the other countries which possess a less altruistic civilization . . 

In our period, new technology has been developed, but remains in need of a guiding philosophy.

The Commander of U.S. Cyber Command has predicted that "the next war will begin in cyberspace." It will not be possible to conceive of international order when the region through which states' survival and progress are taking place remains without any international standards of conduct and is left to unilateral decisions.

China as the present-day economic superpower is the legacy of Deng Xiaoping.

Porque a mera repetição do que é familiar conduz à estagnação, não é pouca a audácia exigida.

continuous revolution had three sources: ideology, tradition, and Chinese nationalism.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any nobility of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

CSF used to be called "gin-clear" when there was no blood or infection in it,' I say to Jeff. 'But probably we're now supposed to use alcohol-free terminology.' I

The best is the enemy of the good,