Motivational Quotes

Progress

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

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Progress

Today's progress was yesterday's plan.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Grenfell, Joyce

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

Kennedy, John F.

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All progress is experimental.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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New roads; new ruts.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Plato

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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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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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Progress is the stride of God.

Hugo, Victor

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

Pantanjali

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Grey, Bill

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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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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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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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The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Roth, Philip

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

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

Havelock Ellis

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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