Quotes About Progress

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

Most of our people have never had it so good.

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind

History belongs to the intercessors

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

History is a relay of revolutions.

Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.