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Quotes About Progress

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.
~ William J. Clinton
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.
~ Frederick Winslow Taylor
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
~ Robert Smithson
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
~ Denis Waitley
The future is in the skies.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.
~ Mark Twain
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
~ Voltaire
Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.
~ Malala Yousafzai
Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.
~ Bill Nye
Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
~ Anthony de Mello
The future of India lies in its villages
~ Mahatma Gandhi
People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed - the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.
~ Shiv Khera
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
~ John F. Kennedy
We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Don't follow in any footprints, make your own prints. Because, you are the future of tomorrow.
~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.
~ Ichiro Suzuki
The future depends on what we do in the present.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The future happens. No matter how much we scream.
~ Unknown
We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.
~ Ban Ki-moon
The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.
~ Willard Libby
Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.
~ Burton Richter
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
~ Rick Warren