Quotes About Progress

The women's movement was slow in coming to suburban New Jersey.

Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive, but also to push things forward. And I think that applies to music. I think it applies to dance. I think it applies to a number of things.

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.

An increased police presence is not a panacea for our subway safety issues, but it's a step in the right direction.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

There's no more powerful lesson than knowing that your setbacks will one day help you succeed.

The world needs opportunities for new leaders and new ideas. Kids need opportunities to lead and succeed. Are you ready to make the match? Because the world's problems shouldn't be the human family's heirloom.

This game is a game of failure, and you're going to fail a heck of a lot more than you succeed in it.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

I have always been bullish about India's potential. I still am, and I feel India is a country that really has an enormous amount of potential and has the human capital to succeed.

Michael Sam will help us, and we'll give him every chance to succeed, and you know what? It's gonna be pretty cool.

To succeed, the Conservative Party must be at home in modern Britain.

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

We want everybody to succeed. You know why? We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people - its individuals - must succeed.

My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed.

I came to this country when I was 12 years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed. President Obama wants everyone to have the chances I had.

The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

We've become a country that is often risk averse. That's not the way to succeed.

Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.

The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.