Motivational Quotes

Progress

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

Best Quotes about Progress

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

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

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

Havelock Ellis

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Ogden Nash

Nothing recedes like progress.

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Orwell, George

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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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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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All progress is experimental.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Proverb, Swedish

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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Progress is the stride of God.

Hugo, Victor

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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, 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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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Roth, Philip

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

Grenfell, Joyce

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.

Proverb

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Plato

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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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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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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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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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, 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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If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

Allen, Charles M.