Motivational Quotes

Progress

Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Progress

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

Pantanjali

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

Proverb, Chinese

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

All progress is experimental.

Chapman, John Jay

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, 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

The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Roth, Philip

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

Grenfell, Joyce

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Proverb, Swedish

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Today's progress was yesterday's plan.

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Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

Kraus, Karl

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

Grey, Bill

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Ogden Nash

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Progress is the stride of God.

Hugo, Victor

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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 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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New roads; new ruts.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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Nothing recedes like progress.

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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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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