Quotes About Progress

History isn't through with me yet.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Make history or be a part of it.

What is national freedom if not a people's inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Yesterday is history Tomorrow's a mystery

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

A vital film that needed to be made at this point in history and has been made magnificently.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.

History doesn't have a curfew.

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.

Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it . . . is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now?

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

History is the zoology of the human race.

Ideas shape the course of history.