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Quotes About Progress

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
~ Robert Kennedy
I do a lot of things hopin I never had to fit in, so tryin to keep up with my progress is like a dead end.
~ Drake
I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
~ Rebecca West
The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.
~ Gene Roddenberry
The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.
~ Linda Ellerbee
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.
~ Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
~ John Lewis
The future does not get better by hope, it gets better by plan. And to plan for the future we need goals.
~ Jim Rohn
I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.
~ Neil Peart
The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.
~ William H. Seward
Everyday is another chance to get things right.
~ Lauryn Hill
It is history that teaches us to hope.
~ Robert E. Lee
After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in the right direction.
~ Joseph Beuys
The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.
~ Samuel Beckett
It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
~ Arthur Eddington
We may have doubts, but we control the present. We always have the choice to move forward with hope and confidence.
~ Teri Hatcher
The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.
~ Katt Williams
We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.
~ Jesse Jackson
I have a lot of hope for the Constituent Assembly.
~ Evo Morales
It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.
~ Marat Safin
I hope it won't take long.
~ Enrico Fermi