Quotes about Progress

We are one life reaching out into a dark future.

The concept of progress act as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

There's no substitute for time in solving many problems,' Leto said. 'However, you can place too much reliance on it. I can accept no more delays.

IF.' 'If you had only . . . If we had but. . .' He wanted to shout them into silence. 'Only fools prefer the past!

as had happened so many times in the past, for every problem solved a new one was added. Beneath

Whatever comes from behind the mountains must cross the dunes.

Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

I try not to be an ideologue about anything. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I'm willing to evolve.

The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety.

Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.