Motivational Quotes

Progress

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

Best Quotes about Progress

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

Addams, Jane

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

Renan, Ernest

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Sir Winston Churchill

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.

Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.

Proverb

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

Grey, Bill

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Today's progress was yesterday's plan.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Grenfell, Joyce

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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

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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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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it necessary to recycle back through school after no more than ten years. In particular fast-moving technologies skills will become obsolete every five years or so.

Davies, Owen

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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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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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

Picasso, Pablo

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Progress is the stride of God.

Hugo, Victor

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

Pantanjali

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When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward.

Proverb, Swedish

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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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The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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New roads; new ruts.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.

Kraus, Karl

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All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Ogden Nash

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The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.

Barbara Hall

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All progress is experimental.

Chapman, John Jay

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Nothing recedes like progress.

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

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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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With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.

Ferm, Ransom K.

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My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

Eliot, George

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The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Nash, Ogden

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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.