Motivational Quotes

Progress

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.

Best Quotes about Progress

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Allen, Charles M.

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

Pantanjali

New roads; new ruts.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.

Proverb

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

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Orwell, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Nothing recedes like progress.

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

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

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

Grey, Bill

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

Addams, Jane

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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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 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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Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Today's progress was yesterday's plan.

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

Proverb, Swedish

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

Plato

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

Havelock Ellis

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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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.