Socratesยท400 BCยทAthensThe secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Benjamin Franklinยท1755ยทParisWithout continual growth and progress, such words as improvement and success have no meaning.
Alan Turingยท1951We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
Gene Roddenberryยท1991ยทLos Angeles, California, USAIt isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.
ChanakyaDon't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.
Arthur C. Clarkeยท1962ยทColombo, Sri LankaThe only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Buckminster Fullerยท1983You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Confuciusยท5th century BCยทQufu, ChinaIf a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Abraham Lincolnยท1862ยทWhite HouseMy great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Wernher von Braunยท1972ยทHuntsville, Alabama, USAI have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
Ellison S. Onizukaยท1980ยทSpeech at Morton Elementary School, HawaiiEvery generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worldsโฆ to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.
Ernest Shackletonยท1921ยทSouthThe quality I look for most is optimism: especially optimism in the face of reverses and apparent defeat.