Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

Admirers of America on the contrary—and of these there are as many in Europe as there are detractors—will tell you that the New World is giving to the old a unique example of energy, activity, intelligence, and daring.

In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country.

What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.

America is the hope of the earth.

Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest of mankind follows them little by little.

People who are not leaders automatically gravitate toward lines--limitations set by others. Many people are taught this in kindergarten when they are instructed to stay within the lines while coloring. But leaders are more creative than that. They look for options and opportunities. They try to take things in a new direction, or beyond the limit. Progress and innovation are made by people who think without lines.

The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.

Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be part of it-we mean to lead it.

All human progress is preceded by new questions

Progress does not occur without change.

The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.

I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.

Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy.

It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.

The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.

Progress requires change.

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.