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Quotes About Progress

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
~ Rebecca Solnit
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.
~ Neil Gaiman
I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
~ Charles Darwin
I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.
~ Cesar Pelli
That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.
~ Barack Obama
I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I think immigration has been one of the vital things about the growth of America. I'm the product of grandparents who all immigrated from Greece. I hope eventually we have proper immigration.
~ Jamie Dimon
Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.
~ Isak Dinesen
Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.
~ Edwin A. Abbott
I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.
~ Marc Andreessen
I believe that meetings at the top level in a relatively informal atmosphere are always useful, and there is reason to hope that we will make progress in resolving the matters we will be considering.
~ Vladimir Putin
We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next.
~ Max More
Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.
~ Jerome Groopman
It gives me such hope that each one of us can contribute to make this world a better place.
~ Agapi Stassinopoulos
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
~ Immanuel Kant
Daily hope is vital, since the 'Winter Quarters' of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
~ Edward de Bono
Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.
~ Edmund Wilson
I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.
~ Lauryn Hill
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.
~ Bertrand Russell
In 2030 we will be ageless and everyone will have an excellent chance to live forever. 2030 is a dream and a goal.
~ FM-2030
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
~ Gertrude Stein
I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.
~ Oliver North