Quotes about Progress
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
— Richard Nixon
As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.
— Margaret Atwood
History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.
— Max Lucado
Doing the impossible is the history of this nation. It is how this country was built
— Michelle Obama
I believe that the ideals that America has stood for throughout our history represent the highest ideals of humankind.
— Mike Pence
The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
— Milan Kundera
A man builds a fine house and now he has a master and a task for life is to furnish watch show it and keep it in repair the rest of his life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways.
— Elton John
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The best way to honor past accomplishments is by building on top of their breakthroughs.
— Bill Johnson
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin