Quotes About Progress

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

The history of economic progress consists of charging a fee for what once was free.

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.

I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.

History is a great dust heap.

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

I think Russia has already turned the toughest pages in its history. We're only moving forward now, only get stronger.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

I wake up ready to right and I feel like I'm on the right side of history every day.

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past.