Collective Progress Quotes

The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily, does not wait to be done by perfect men.

He who builds on the people, builds on the mud

Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

It is the apparent plan of nature that as one human being, so also one generation, and also one nationality learn, learn incessantly, from and with the others, until all have comprehended the difficult lesson: No nationality has been solely designated by God as the chosen people of the earth; above all we must seek the truth and cultivate the garden of the common good. Hence no nationality of Europe may separate itself sharply, and foolishly say, "With us alone, with us dwells all wisdom.

If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six—the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

It is not enough to teach our young people to be successful...so they can realize their ambitions, so they can earn good livings, so they can accumulate the material things that this society bestows. Those are worthwhile goals. But it is not enough to progress as individuals while our friends and neighbors are left behind

Knowledge was meant to be shared.

There is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people’s urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand together, hands clasped, and be friends. We will be comrades, we will be brothers, and we will begin the march to the grandest civilization the human race has ever known.

In the past, civilization has been a heritage enjoyed by a few upon a basis of the brutalization of the vast multitude …. nation aims at a civilization of the whole resting upon the whole, and only made possible by the educated co-operation of an educated whole.

We rise by lifting others.

We know from research that growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you've got to get around people that are going in the same direction you want to be going, and you will catch the success.

Whereas the only real solution to the race problem in this country is a solution that involves individual self improvement and collective self improvement in, whereas our own, wherein our own people are concerned.

My government's aim for Fiji is not to return to where we once were but to journey forward together to a place we have not yet been

We will remember that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea:- Yes. We. Can.

Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.

We must continue to go forward as one people, as brothers and sisters.

We simply must find ways both to bridge the differences that still seem to divide us and focus on the things that we share.

We can't let 535 people continue to limit the progress of a nation of more than 300 million.

We are tapping into what the world wants: to be a part of change.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.

Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

What we need are mental and spiritual giants who are aflame with a purpose . . . We're a race ready for crusade, for we've recognized that we're a race on this continent that can work out its own salvation.