Quotes About Advancement

any structure that has a ranking system tempts you to try to climb it.

Reacher hated turning back. He liked to press on, dead ahead, whatever.

key. I need to move up into Duke's job. Then I'll be top boy on Beck's side. Then I'll

Further On Up the Road." Bobby Bland

In many respects, the West has not recovered from the Middle Ages.

poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and, above all others, the most useful.

Tristo è quel discepolo che non avanza il suo maestro.

Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Intendo dire", disse Alice, "che uno non può fare a meno di crescere." "Uno forse non può", disse Humpty Dumpty, "ma due possono. Con un aiuto adeguato, avresti potuto fermarti a sette anni.

One can never go back. One always has to move forward.

Make a better history

There is no progress without cost.

Humans are interesting, however. Our ability to adapt is truly impressive. Our rage against our own suffering. Our relentless need to find a way out, to do something, anything, to advance our lot in life.

The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.