Motivational Quotes

Progress

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

Best Quotes about Progress

All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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.

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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Grenfell, Joyce

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All progress is experimental.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Orwell, George

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Today's progress was yesterday's plan.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.

Proverb

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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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Nothing recedes like progress.

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

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Grey, Bill

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

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Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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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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Progress is the stride of God.

Hugo, Victor

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

Pantanjali

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

Plato

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

Proverb, Swedish

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Havelock Ellis