Motivational Quotes

Progress

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

Best Quotes about Progress

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.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Pantanjali

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Roth, Philip

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

Plato

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Grey, Bill

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

Grenfell, Joyce

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Havelock Ellis

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Nothing recedes like progress.

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Sir Winston Churchill

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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.