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Quotes About Progress

The world is waiting for us to graduate from ourselves.
~ Shannon L. Alder
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
~ Lucretia Mott
I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential.
~ Ratan Tata
The seeds of great victory lie in minor triumphs.
~ Toyotomi Hideyoshi
In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.
~ Pharrell Williams
I move forward in my life every day, even if it's only a tiny step, because I know that great things are accomplished with tiny moves, but nothing is accomplished by standing still
~ Zig Ziglar
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
~ John Stuart Mill
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
~ Ken Thompson
All great art is born of the metropolis.
~ Ezra Pound
No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
~ Brad Henry
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those realities.
~ Gifford Pinchot
A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.
~ John F. Kennedy
You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them.
~ Stephen Covey
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
~ Bertrand Russell
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
~ James A. Michener
Our world is constantly in change and the great change is always toward freedom. When we speak of freedom we speak of equality. Nations will rise and fall but equality remains the ideal.
~ Carlos P. Romulo
Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.
~ Bobby Nichols
We should be building great things that don't exist.
~ Larry Page
Great things have small beginnings.
~ Francis Drake
As is commonly said, 'to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.'
~ Haile Selassie
I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.
~ T. D. Jakes
I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.
~ Richard Pryor
Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
~ Valentina Tereshkova