Motivational Quotes

Progress

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

Best Quotes about Progress

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

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

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

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

Roth, Philip

You can't say that civilization don't advance... for in every war they kill you a new way.

Rogers, Will

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Addams, Jane

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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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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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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.

Proverb

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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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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Pantanjali

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

Ogden Nash

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Plato

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Nothing recedes like progress.

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

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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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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 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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Progress is the stride of God.

Hugo, Victor

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

Grenfell, Joyce

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

Havelock Ellis

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Watson, Thomas 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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Today's progress was yesterday's plan.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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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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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