"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change."

-- Henry Steele Commager

#Inspirational Quotes #Progress Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on beneath everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.”
“Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.”
“It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.”
“I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.”
“I could have grabbed his shirt collar. I could have pulled him close to me, so close he could feel my breath on his skin, and I could have said to him, "This is just a crisis. A flash! A single match struck against the implacable darkness of time! You are the one who taught me to never give up. You taught me that new possibilities emerge for those who are prepared, for those who are ready. You have to believe!”
“We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.”
“Now here I am almost 52 years old, it's really easy. I'm way more at peace. But when you're a competitor, and you're as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences.”
“We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams wonâ€™t all come true; we wonâ€™t always make it; but where there is no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness.”

You may also like:

Allan Nevins
Historian
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Historian
Bruce Catton
Historian
Edward Kennedy
Former United States Senator
James Bryce
British Politician
John Maurice Clark
Economist
Richard Hofstadter
Historian
Samuel Eliot Morison
Historian
Theodore Parker