Motivational Quotes

Progress

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

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Progress

All progress is experimental.

Chapman, John Jay

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

Allen, Charles M.

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

Havelock Ellis

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rogers, Will

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

Plato

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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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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 is the stride of God.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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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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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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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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New roads; new ruts.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Grey, Bill

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Pantanjali

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Nothing recedes like progress.

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

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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.

Proverb

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

Orwell, George

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Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Addams, Jane

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

Grenfell, Joyce

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