Quotations about

Progress

Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

—Walt Disney

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

—Carl Sandburg

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

—Russell Baker

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

—Don Marquis

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

—George Eliot

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

—Carl Sandburg

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

—Elizabeth Janeway

Don't agonize. Organize.

—Florynce Kennedy

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

—Alan Paton

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

—Robert M. Pirsig

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

—Laurence J. Peter

All the laws made for the betterment of workers’ lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened, wages go up, conditions are better—only if the workers protest.

—Mary Heaton Vorse

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

—Robert A. Heinlein

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

—Carl Sandburg