Motivational Quotes

Progress

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

Best Quotes about Progress

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

Renan, Ernest

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Pantanjali

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Progress is the stride of God.

Hugo, Victor

New roads; new ruts.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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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Nothing recedes like progress.

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

11.

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

Grey, Bill

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Chapman, John Jay

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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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Today's progress was yesterday's plan.

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

Ogden Nash

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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All progress is experimental.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Roth, Philip

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

Plato

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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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The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Proverb, Swedish

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

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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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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.

Proverb

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Orwell, George