Quotes about Progress
For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.
— Barack Obama
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
— Dorothy Sayers
When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!
— Mark Lowry
The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you've got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.
— Peter Drucker
Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.
— Bishop TD Jakes
We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.
— Vance Havner
He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
— Helen Keller
To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected
— Thomas Paine
Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.
— Amelia Earhart
One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.
— Henry David Thoreau
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
— GK Chesterton