Motivational Quotes

Progress

Nothing recedes like progress.

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Roth, Philip

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

Pantanjali

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Proverb, Swedish

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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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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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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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Today's progress was yesterday's plan.

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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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All progress is experimental.

Chapman, John Jay

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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 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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Nothing recedes like progress.

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Addams, Jane

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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 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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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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New roads; new ruts.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Grey, Bill

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Progress is the stride of God.

Hugo, Victor

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

Nash, Ogden