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Quotes About Progress

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.
~ Jack Layton
I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
~ Mahershala Ali
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
~ Frank Herbert
I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.
~ will.i.am
American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.
~ Elena Kagan
So what I tend to do is to think of today as the past. It's funny when you comin in first but you hope that you last.. You just hope that it lasts.
~ Drake
Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path.
~ Lu Xun
The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
~ Diane Ravitch
I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.
~ Blythe Danner
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
~ John Lennon
I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.
~ Ellen Swallow Richards
It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.
~ Farah Diba
I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We have a great deal to do...and think that we can be of use to each other (and to) the world.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!
~ Sid Caesar
I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.
~ Albert Finney
We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.
~ Geri Halliwell
Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.
~ Nikola Tesla
I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.
~ N. C. Wyeth
Musically, I just think in terms of what's next. There's a lot of things I've always dreamed of doing, and I hope I get to them before I get too deaf.
~ Kevin Shields
Hope that there are many, many small leaders.
~ Pete Seeger
We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.
~ James Larkin
I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.
~ Martin Rees