Woodrow Wilson Quotes

Driven by globalization and technology our country and our economy is becoming different every day.

If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.

There's something about the American spirit -– inherent in the American spirit -- we don't hang on to the past. We always move forward.... We are going to leave something better for our children –- not just here in the United States, but all around the world.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you'll just repeat what's old.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does this never advances. The American's disposition is to step forward even at the risk of a fall.

You can't use an old map to see a new land.

When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.

The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

It was for Columbus, when the right hour struck, forced and propelled by this fresh life, to reveal the land where these new principles were to be brought, and where the awaited trial of the new civilization was to be made.

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line. Beauty walks a razor's edge...someday I'll make it mine.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

Lots of really interesting people move to U.S and decide to work here, because of this whole attitude and openness. I'm absolutely convinced that this is just the beginning. In a couple decades we will see an even more dramatic change.

America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.

I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education. And through music and art and basketball and activities and joys that people share worldwide, regardless of ethnic background or religious orientation.

The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non animum mutant': they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets.