Motivational Quotes

Progress

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

- Pantanjali

Best Quotes about Progress

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Addams, Jane

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

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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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

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

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

Havelock Ellis

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Progress is the stride of God.

Hugo, Victor

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Nothing recedes like progress.

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

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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.

Proverb

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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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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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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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All progress is experimental.

Chapman, John Jay

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New roads; new ruts.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Roth, Philip

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

Pantanjali

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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.