Quotes About Progress

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it

We believe that economic progress comes from the inventiveness, ability, determination and the pioneering spirit of extraordinary men and women. If they cannot exercise that spirit here, they will go away to another free enterprise country which will then make more economic progress than we do.

New ideas are created when they can be discussed freely, but if there is a CORRECT view then you cease to have new ideas

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.

Secular self-assertion, perhaps inevitably, developed more slowly; it was one thing to act in 'unfeminine' ways if divinely inspired, not quite so easy to act unconventionally out of personal ambition.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Her life seemed to her a great engineering work scarcely begun. Lately more excavation than construction had occurred. She had lost a sense of her own invincibility. In that way she was no longer archetypically American.

If what we change does not change us, we are playing with blocks.

Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground

Walking bores me. I mean, we have to have a goal.

Finally something besides infatuation had focused him. He was no longer merely flowing water.

Up the well known creek

As I see it, the word "private" is going plumb out of date. It's goin' to be an ole-fashioned concep', mark my words. That's a prophecy.

Be willing to acknowledge that there is a way out and a better life waiting for you. It will motivate you to action.

It is rare in today's turbulent world to find a city that so harmoniously mixes tradition and modernity, without enslaving itself to either one.

And out in the wide wide world, the famous women we gazed upon never stopped reminding us that we must cherish that generic female future.

Civil rights. The New Left. Black Power. Feminism. Gay rights. To be remade so many times in one generation is surely a blessing.

Stories can seem like tragedies, depending where they stopped.

All along, he'd been looking in the wrong direction, trying to make time stand still, to re-create the past, but everything in life taught the opposite.

Failure leads to Success.

Mistakes are expected, respected, and investigated

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.