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

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

New roads; new ruts.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Kennedy, John F.

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

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

Bachelard, Gaston

Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it rallies the stragglers, its stopping places when it meditates, contemplating some new and splendid promised land that has suddenly appeared on its horizon. It has its nights of slumber; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker to see the human spirit lost in shadow, and to grope in the darkness without being able to awake sleeping progress.

Hugo, Victor

Progress is the stride of God.

Hugo, Victor

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Swedish

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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Nothing recedes like progress.

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

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

Grenfell, Joyce

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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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Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Today's progress was yesterday's plan.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Roth, Philip

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

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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Ogden Nash

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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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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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.

Proverb

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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 walking of Man is falling forwards.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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