Motivational Quotes

Progress

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Progress

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

Watson, Thomas J.

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

Kaiser, Henry J.

Most people are in favor of progress, it's the changes they don't like.

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

Nash, Ogden

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Lincoln, Abraham

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Today's progress was yesterday's plan.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

Chapman, John Jay

Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

Simms, William Gilmore

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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Addams, Jane

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New roads; new ruts.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

Allen, Charles M.

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Why aren't we making any progress towards a crime-free society? We're not making progress because we are too damn busy making excuses.

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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

Mumford, Lewis

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What we call'Progress'is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Havelock Ellis

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I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.

Ogden Nash

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A lot of what appears to be progress is just so much technological rococo.

Grey, Bill

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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

Pantanjali

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When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

Perot, H. Ross

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The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Renan, Ernest

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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.

Miller, Henry

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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Orwell, George

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Progress is the stride of God.

Hugo, Victor

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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

Herzen, Alexander

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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Nothing recedes like progress.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Russell Baker

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Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

Susan Rice

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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

Santayana, George

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Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

Kraus, Karl

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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.

Proverb

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A radical is one of whom people say He goes too far. A conservative, on the other hand, is one who doesn't go far enough. Then there is the reactionary, one who doesn't go at all. All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. They are bright, while the level below is still in darkness. But soon the light, which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain, and penetrates to the deepest valley. First come hints, then fragments of systems, then defective systems, then complete and harmonious systems. The sound opinion, held for a time by one bold speculator, becomes the opinion of a small minority, of a strong minority, of a majority of mankind. Thus, the great progress goes on.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

Harris, Sidney J.

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A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress -- though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.

Russell, Bertrand

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Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving.

Mayfield, Harold

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Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

Roth, Philip

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Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Proverb, Chinese