Motivational Quotes

Progress

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

Best Quotes about Progress

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

Renan, Ernest

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 is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

Pantanjali

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

Plato

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Nash, Ogden

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

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

Ogden Nash

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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Grenfell, Joyce

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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

Addams, Jane

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

Grey, Bill

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

Proverb, Chinese

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New roads; new ruts.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.

Proverb

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Nothing recedes like progress.

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

40.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

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

Havelock Ellis

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

Proverb, Swedish

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

Orwell, George