Human Progress Quotes

• While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Blow, Wind

  Barack Obama's remarks prior to departure from Accra, Ghana, July 11, 2009.

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• The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

  Indira Gandhi

  Leadership, Inspirational Life, Progress

  Indira Gandhi (1975). “Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: The years of endeavour, August 1969-August 1972”

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• Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Work, Struggle

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Mind, Progress

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

  Marcus Garvey

  Moving, Humanity, Progress

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, The Majority Press

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• Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Effort, Progress

  "The Other America". Speech at Grosse Pointe High School, www.gphistorical.org. March 14, 1968.

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• Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.

  Christopher Columbus

  Life, Motivational, Light

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• Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Progress

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Lying, Progress, Differentiation

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

  Don Marquis

  Race, Life Sucks, Progress

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• How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Goal, Humanity, Progress

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• The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Special Message to the Congress on Education, February 20, 1961.

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• Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

  John Clapham

  Progress, Society, Environmental

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• America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Happiness, Lying, America

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• Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

  Tony Blair

  Progress, Complainers, Humans

  "Tony Blair At Colby College: ‘Are We An Empire That’s Fading?’" by Hunter Stuart, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2012.

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• There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

  Edward de Bono

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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• There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

  Edward de Bono

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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• Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

  Madame de Stael

  Learning, Mind, Progress

  "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.

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• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.107, Best Books on

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• All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

  Edward Gibbon

  Wisdom, Growth, Doe

  'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' (1776-88) ch. 71

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• The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.

  Bertrand Russell

  Progress, Chiefs, Intellect

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.197, Psychology Press

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• There are no limits to growth and human progress
  when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Men, Growth

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

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• A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Ego, Progress

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• I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

  H. L. Mencken

  Race, Progress, Littles

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• All human progress is preceded by new questions

  Tony Robbins

  Progress, Humans

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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