Quotes About Progress

Actions without a dream serve you no purpose, Dreams without action merely pass the time, however, a Dream set into motion….the future has no boundaries.

The past is something that can not be fixed, but sets an example to fix the present to better the future.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt creep in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are what you believe, and you will expand and grow and evolve in your own time.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt creep in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely.

I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret.

Mistakes are the best way to understand your strengths and weaknesses, but they will bear fruit only if you acknowledge them and view them as opportunities to learn, instead of defeats.

IBM acquired a great deal of modern manufacturing and sales capacity—for the wrong products.

History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced With courage, need not be lived again. —MAYA ANGELOU1

Each action of each of us, each decision to pursue one course rather than another, changes or rather "produces" the future. By

Change the fabric of their culture? It hasn't happened yet, not in two thousand years. And it won't happen now.

As I grew older, my love for reading grew stronger. I read with studious interest everything I could find relating to colored men who had gained prominence. My heroes had been King David, then Robert the Bruce; now Frederick Douglass was enshrined in the place of honor.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

And this is the dwarfing, warping, distorting influence which operates upon each and every colored man in the United States. He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, or even a human being, but from the viewpoint of a colored man. It is wonderful to me that the race has progressed so broadly as it has, since most of its thought and all of its activity must run through the narrow neck of this one funnel.

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

The parts of humanity that use to be civil are dead and gone. The only thing left is a technological, emotionless, colorless, dead version of reality we live in every day.

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

To take part in a severe contrast between intelligence, which presses forward,and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.

As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.

Convention itself, like metaphor itself, is not dead; but it is always dying.

Perfection itself is boring; it's only everything leading up to it that's interesting.

For so long I have believed I could never catch up, but now I realize there's nothing to catch up to, there's only what I choose to make. There's still time, I think. I have so much time left.

My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over." Richard Branson, Entrepreneur, founder of Virgin Group