Quotes About Progress

I'd rather keep changing and lose people along the way. If that's the price, I'll pay it.

We are all on the same road, some ahead of us and some behind. We do not always recognize ourselves as being among those who are struggling farther back, and misunderstand, scorn, and even persecute the ones who move ahead of us. History is littered with such as these: eccentrics, geniuses, idealists among those most noticeable. These change the world by force, though the change most often does not take place during their own time, they are so far ahead of it and therefore so rarely understood.

Calm yourself. Calm yourself . . . " In time I do, and I move forward.

Big-shot town, small-shot town, jet-propelled old-fashioned town, by old-world hands with new-world tools built into a place whose heartbeat carries farther than its shout, whose whispering in the night sounds less hollow than its roistering noontime laugh: they have builded a heavy-shouldered laughter here who went to work too young.

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.

The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

Forget the past.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

I never lose, I either win or learn

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

Lead from the front — but don t leave your base behind.

Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.

It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great...

It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.

I remember Mac retorting that hundreds of years ago there was a Hindi word for a craft that flew in the air, long before the airplane was invented, but that did not mean that airplanes existed in ancient India.