Stephen Colbert Quotes

The future will be better tomorrow.

You can change things, you can make things better.

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

We appreciate yesterday, but we're looking for a better tomorrow.

Progress really is possible.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.

The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

I hold that man in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.

How can we do better tomorrow than we did today?

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.

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

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

Believe in better, which is a corporate phrase rather than a political phrase. We don't want more. We're not looking for quantity. We're looking for quality. Believe in better suggests intergenerational change. It suggests product innovation. It suggests something better for the future.

Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!

I think we're going in the right direction.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.