Motivational Quotes

Progress

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

- Rogers, Will

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

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

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Grenfell, Joyce

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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New roads; new ruts.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb, Swedish

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All progress is experimental.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Pantanjali

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Roth, Philip

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Ogden Nash

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

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Progress is the stride of God.

Hugo, Victor

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.