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

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Plato

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.

New roads; new ruts.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Grey, Bill

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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.

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

Pantanjali

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

Nash, Ogden

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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 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

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All progress is experimental.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Orwell, George

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Grenfell, Joyce

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

Havelock Ellis

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

Ogden Nash

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

Addams, Jane

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Nothing recedes like progress.

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

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

Roth, Philip

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Progress is the stride of God.

Hugo, Victor

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Swedish

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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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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