Quotes About Progress

Continual learning is the key to continual living. If you stop learning you have effectively stopped living.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty." —Henry Ford5

The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed up again!' Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing.

I am as yet a storm of zero force. Almost a breath.

Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

We are a nation not only of dreamers, but also of fixers. We have looked at our land and people, and said, time and time again, "This is not good enough; we can be better.

I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy . . . in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, [and] Musick.

Progress cannot be only intuited. It must be written, and read.

But there should be no dispute that if American schools don't improve, America will lose its world leadership.

This is the embodiment of heroic citizenship, a commitment to each other and to fixing problems. It is seeking solutions and not praise, progress and not personal aggrandizement. It is doing what is right for the sake of right.

There had actually been a form of a smallpox vaccine since the eighteenth century; what was required was the ability to dream big, to work with others, and to see the destiny of the United States as improving the lives of those beyond our borders. This is the America of which I am exceptionally proud.

Innovate as a last resort.