Pioneers Quotes

• The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Military, War

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• There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Leadership, Courage, Ambition

  Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1941). “Adventures of a White-Collar Man”

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• The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.

  Ameen Rihani

  Highways, Nations, Footsteps

  Ameen Fares Rihani (1921). “The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West”

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• What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Work, Lighthouse, Steers

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1945). “Yankee from Olympus”

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• Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Sacrifice, Way

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• Like the pioneers of old, a creative person breaks new ground daily.

  Anna Olson

  Creative, Break, Persons

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• You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.

  William H. Calvin

  Arrows, Spots

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• Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.

  Timothy Leary

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• Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

  Indira Gandhi

  Rebel, Designer, Non Conformist

  Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti (1975). “The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti”

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• Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Inspirational, Leadership, Perseverance

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• A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

  Willa Cather

  Should Have, Ideas, Imagination

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.26, Xist Publishing

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• Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

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  Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Break Up

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 16, 2011

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• It is not easy to be a pioneer but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Acceptance, Worst Moments, World

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• For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!

  Walt Whitman

  Race, Bears, March

  "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" l. 6 (1881)

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• History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

  Henry Ford

  War, Mean, Men

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• This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Men, Risk, Dreamer

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• From the pioneers we can learn to have faith and trust God; we can learn to be compassionate to others; we can learn that work and industry not only bless us temporally but spiritually; and that happiness is available to us no matter our circumstances.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Have Faith, Matter, Trust In God

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• Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

  James Allen

  Life, Men, People

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• It's not always as comfortable blazing the trail as it is walking on it.

  Joan Lunden

  Blazing, Trails, Walking

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• Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Eye, Wings, Generations

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.75

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• I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

  Daniel Boone

  Inspirational, Confused, Confusion

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• Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Success, Powerful, Communication

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• The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Dream, America, Quality

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• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

  Nancy Astor

  Lonely, May, Figures

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