Motivational Quotes

Progress

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Progress

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Progress is the stride of God.

Hugo, Victor

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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.

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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 walking of Man is falling forwards.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Grenfell, Joyce

14.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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

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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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Nothing recedes like progress.

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

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The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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All progress is experimental.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Swedish

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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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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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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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You can't say that civilization don't advance... for in every war they kill you a new way.

Rogers, Will

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Pantanjali

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Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

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

Orwell, George

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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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Today's progress was yesterday's plan.

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

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

Grey, Bill

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Ogden Nash