Neil Young
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl."
Pioneers quotes
Pioneers
126 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Indira Gandhi
Politician
"Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change."
Pharrell Williams
Musician, Producer
"If you are not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die. And discovering, I think, that's what separates us from the rest of the other species. It's that we discover and pioneer."
Charles Marion Russell
Artist
"A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!"
Explore further
Topics related to Pioneers
Browse quotes that often appear alongside pioneers — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Pioneers quotes (page 1 of 7)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"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!"
Read quote
9 likes
"A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future."
Read quote
9 likes
"The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes."
Read quote
8 likes
"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while."
Read quote
8 likes
"We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side."
Read quote
8 likes
"When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends."
Read quote
7 likes
"There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east."
Read quote
7 likes
"The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry & started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized."
Read quote
7 likes
"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!"
Read quote
6 likes
"The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)"
Read quote
6 likes
"On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life."
Read quote
5 likes
"Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree."
Read quote
5 likes
"We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good."
Read quote
5 likes
"George Bush calls his biggest fundraisers Rangers and Pioneers. But today, we stand together, and we call ourselves, simply, Americans."
Read quote
4 likes
"The pioneer kills what he loves."
Read quote
3 likes
"I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer."
Read quote
3 likes
"You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs."
Read quote
3 likes
"You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made theirs. They sought for true success, and therefore they did not seek ease. They knew that success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor"
Read quote
3 likes
"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."
Read quote
3 likes
"Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended."
Read quote
3 likes