Barack Obama Quotes

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

There is no such thing as standing still.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.

Progress often masquerades as trouble.

It's kind of amazing to see that progress happens over time.

It ain't about going backwards. It's about moving forward.

We are not starting a revolution. We are starting an evolution of change.

Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.

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

To stand still is to regress.

Anything is better than stagnation.

You are either going forward or you are not.

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

If anything's progressive, then we make progress.

I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

Movement isn't progress.

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.