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Quotes About Progress

You're never really happy. I'm certainly not. That's a good thing. It means you're always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.
~ Kate Bush
And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.
~ William J. Clinton
There is new hope among people that this dispensation can fulfill their aspirations.
~ Narendra Modi
It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.
~ Justin Cronin
You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.
~ Stephen Bayley
Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.
~ John Ruskin
You have your own culture and your own ways of doing things. I hope Japan continues on this path.
~ Jamie Dimon
Education is spreading hope. Millions are now learning to live with HIV/AIDS - instead of waiting to die from it.
~ Laura Bush
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
~ Richard M. Nixon
I started off as a director, so when I see other actors directing, it gives me hope that maybe they'll put me into that position at some point, too.
~ Niall Matter
The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done.
~ Tim Ferriss
I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed you and your world, and most importantly, you've done something.
~ Neil Gaiman
My hope is Donald Trump makes things better. And if he does, we'll all benefit from it.
~ Barack Obama
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
[On golf:] ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings of hope known to all middle-aged beginners.
~ Ethel Smyth
We've had these bursts of cool years here or there but that's not change. That's a trend. You only hope that this could be the beginning of true change.
~ Ava DuVernay
I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet to live better in five years than we do today.
~ Francois Hollande
So I think (Obama) definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope, and I can't wait to see what he stands for.
~ Susan Sarandon
In the 1970s, I think that there was probably a higher degree of respect for science, of hope about the future, and the future-oriented vision.
~ Ann Druyan
I would hope everyone would be a feminist.
~ Mia Wasikowska
The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.
~ Charlotte Gainsbourg
A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.
~ Linus Torvalds
There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in what you do.?
~ R.A. Dickey