Top 203 Pioneers Quotes & Sayings

In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it.

We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.

It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.

There are always two kinds of people in the world - those who pioneer and those who plod. The plodders always attack the pioneers. They say that the pioneers have gobbled up all the opportunity, when, as a plain matter of fact, the plodders would have nowhere to plod had not the pioneers first cleared the way.

The American people want and deserve a space program truly worthy of a nation of pioneers.

We are here to start an era, to start an Age, to celebrate the transition from the Piscean Age into the Aquarian Age. We are here to celebrate that. We are the pioneers. We are the pioneers of the Dharma. Let's bow our heads in prayer and let us open our hearts.

Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.

I've been a fan of Bad Brains ever since I can remember. They are iconic pioneers of punk, not just the music but the attitude.

My wife and I drove across America following the Oregon Trail, which the pioneers once passed along.

I had been reading a lot about pioneers in Australia and the colonization of Australia, and pioneers in Virginia and the early settlers in the United States, and I was fascinated by those communities and how they grew, how their politics developed, and the actual suffering of those people and the tribulations they went through.

I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.

George Bush calls his biggest fundraisers Rangers and Pioneers. But today, we stand together, and we call ourselves, simply, Americans.

I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea.

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

As one of the pioneers of modern hair care and cosmetics, Madam Walker is still an inspiration to a lot of people going into the business.

The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen's history, they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite.

We are pioneers of creating a new genre of metal.

Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world. There was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners.

As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.

Those who have contributed great positive innovations to our society, from the pioneers of genetic understanding to the pioneers of the Information Age, have received a pittance compared with those responsible for the financial innovations that brought our global economy to the brink of ruin.

For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!

I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or Peter Weir who are considered not mainstream directors and that could be because they are like my dad. They are pioneers, and pioneers, by definition, invent something new.

Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so their pioneers will flourish. This point is so important it's hard to overstress. No support systems, no champions. No champions, no innovations.

The pioneers take the arrows. And when you're at the top everybody is gunning for what you have and what you want, and that's just part of the territory.

You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.

All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.

I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.

Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.

Like the pioneers of old, a creative person breaks new ground daily.

Those faithful Mormon pioneers ... were willing to put everything on the altar to sacrifice for and defend their God and their faith.

These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.

Pioneers will always get the stones, when everyone later gets the accolades.

In South Korea, a scientist considered to be one of the pioneers in the field of cloning has been sentenced to two years in prison. At least, they think it's him.

By highlighting female pioneers in STEM, we can encourage aspiring young women who want to study or work in these fields.

China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

But with country trap, I in no way want to take credit for that. I believe Young Thug would be one of the biggest pioneers in that.

In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our time.

When I was general director of City Opera, we were pioneers in the practice of projecting supertitles so that American audiences finally could know what all the singing was about.

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good.

All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O Pioneers!

In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents.

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

[The pioneers] woke up each morning with clearly defined purposes and goals that everyone understood: to serve God.

Pioneers get slaughtered, and the settlers prosper.

I'm a firm believer in everything going digital, in a matter of years. I wanted to kind of be one of the pioneers, one of the people that jump on that bandwagon early.

You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!

America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

You look at the pioneers that have paved the way for players like myself. Sometimes, you just sit back and scratch your head.

Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

Little sins are pioneers of hell.

But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious.

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.