Pioneer Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old pioneer quotes, pioneer sayings, and pioneer proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different. Alfred P. Sloan
Making you a pioneer only means one thing. You were around at the time. Red Buttons
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. Deepak Chopra
The way of the pioneer is always rough Harvey S Firestone
The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages. Theodore Roosevelt
A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization. Charles Marion Russell
The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before. Albert Einstein
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones. Nancy Astor
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. Eric Hoffer
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service. Albert Einstein
[The pioneers] woke up each morning with clearly defined purposes and goals that everyone understood: to serve God. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
A pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was left, poisoned the water, cut down the trees, killed the Indian who owned the land and called it progress. Charles Marion Russell
Pioneers get slaughtered, and the settlers prosper. Daymond John
Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Don't be a prisoner of the past, become a pioneer of the future. Farshad Asl
A pioneer family lived beyond the reach of shopping malls. Stephen Baxter
On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life. Anna Howard Shaw
As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing. Jack Kerouac
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. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Each of us is a pioneer and many of us pioneer daily in trying to establish a gospel foothold in distant parts of the world. Gordon B. Hinckley
Pioneering is the work of individuals . Susanne Katherina Langer
A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts Benjamin Rush
We are all time voyagers leaving history in our wake, pioneering into the future. Erwin Raphael McManus
All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness. Lucy Maud Montgomery
America is not a country of immigrants, we are a country of pioneers. Mike Klepper
We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space. Buzz Aldrin
A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves Willa Cather
We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good. Jeff Bezos
The way of the pioneer is always rough. Harvey S. Firestone