Top 100 Progress Is Quotes
#3. Leaders don't try to make people unhappy. However, leaders just know, progress is always preceded by change." "And some people don't like change,
Mark Miller
#4. Genuine scientific progress is a slow climb, which requires a stable society to support thinkers and theorists over many generations.
Peter F. Hamilton
#5. Aren't we constantly discovering how mistaken some of our cherished beliefs were? That is what progress is. We learn continually to cast aside outgrown notions and adopt wiser and better ones.
Sara Ware Bassett
#6. Progress is made by walking down the path, more progress is made, by walking down the right path.
Dixie Waters
#7. Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.
Nikki Giovanni
#8. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw
Wayne W. Dyer
#10. The impulse of humanity toward social progress is like the movement in the currents of a great water system, from myriad sources and under myriad circumstances and conditions, beating onward, ever onward toward its eternity, the Ocean.
Anna Julia Cooper
#12. To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.
Steve Jobs
#14. What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
#15. Jealousy is when their reflection in the mirror that is your progress, is attacked rather than appreciated, begrudged rather than understood.
Sam Owen
#16. You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us.
Sellapan Ramanathan
#17. Little progress is better than no progress at all. Success comes in taking many small steps. If you stumble in a small step, it rarely matters. Don't gift wrap the garbage. Let little failures go.
John C. Maxwell
#18. The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?" It's, "How does the majority of our country respond?"
Barack Obama
#19. Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
Herbert Read
#21. To defy the God of Progress is often to marry the Goddess of Poverty.
David James Duncan
#22. Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it, to look at it, to witness it. Try and get it. Seize the moment.
Joan Didion
#23. In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we move forward or back: this too is a choice.
Martin O'Malley
#24. We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us to stand up and move forward. Now, as then, free people must choose.
William J. Clinton
#26. The secret of making progress is to get started.
Mark Twain
#27. In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq.
Peter T. King
#28. I've been writing about measurement a lot this year, because I've found that measuring progress is the only way to drive lasting success.
John Lanchester
#31. All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw
#32. In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.
James Clerk Maxwell
#33. Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.
Peter Drucker
#34. Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in a modified form, then the system must still be attacked until that injustice is eradicated.
Tim Wise
#35. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa
#36. A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, because people see things differently
Richard Posner
#37. Progress is impossible without the ability to admit mistakes.
Masaaki Imai
#38. One of the most significant barriers to progress is the lack of effective leadership.
Ken Jennings
#39. The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.
William H. Seward
#40. The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.
H.A.L. Fisher
#41. The strongest reactionary force impeding progress is the cult of progress itself, which, cutting us off from our roots, makes growth impossible and choice unnecessary.
John Senior
#42. If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.
Malcolm X
#44. The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.
Eli Broad
#45. If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.
Charles Handy
#46. In life we must be willing to take risks, for that is the only way progress is attained.
Ndiritu Wahome
#47. Slow, steady progress is better than fast, daily excuses.
Robin Sharma
#48. I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.
Anita Roddick
#49. The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist.
James Cook
#50. AI systems will enable doctors to diagnose diseases and treat people better, so blocking that progress is probably one of the worst things you can do for making the world better.
Mark Zuckerberg
#51. Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know - the Church does neither.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#52. Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
#53. If you once believed that everything always turns out well in the end, you can be persuaded that nothing turns out well in the end. If you once did nothing because you thought progress is inevitable, then you can continue to do nothing because you think time moves in repeating cycles.
Timothy Snyder
#54. Progress is discovering what you can do without.
Marty Rubin
#55. Progress is something with no pity, and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew, and spits out things you can't understand, and the only value it seems to have is to make a few people a lot of money.
Spider Robinson
#56. The road to progress is often paved with blood and bullshit.
John Boyko
#57. Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
Marcus Garvey
#58. The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.
Norbert Wiener
#59. daily progress is the secret of success.
Alden Mills
#60. The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.
James A. Baldwin
#61. It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters ... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.
Joss Whedon
#62. Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.
Kara Goucher
#64. Progress is the realization of utopia.
Oscar Wilde
#65. [We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?
Mark Steyn
#66. The art of progress is to reserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead
#68. There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.
Henry Ford
#69. But the surest way to slow your own progress is to rush yourself into situation you're not ready for.
Marie Lu
#71. Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered. There is less glory and more liberty. The drum holds its peace; reason takes the word. It is a game in which he who loses wins.
Victor Hugo
#72. It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Theodore Roosevelt
#73. The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.
Noam Chomsky
#74. We do not run government on whims of an individual, our progress is reforms driven, our reforms are policy driven and our policies are people driven.
Narendra Modi
#76. If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#77. The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.
James Carroll
#78. Progress is hard, achievements are easy, and giving up is easier still.
Kevin Focke
#79. Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.
H.L. Mencken
#80. Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity.
Pearl Zhu
#81. Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.
Aldous Huxley
#82. The most important condition for progress is freedom of the mind.
Debasish Mridha
#83. The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
William Ralph Inge
#85. The greatest enemy of progress is your last success, you could become so proud of what you've already accomplished that you stop moving ahead to what you can still accomplish
Myles Munroe
#86. The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
Swami Vivekananda
#87. The world is your canvas and your teacher.Take a day to reflect, measure and adjust on your goals; progress is essential to continued success.
Bob Proctor
#88. The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
Herbert Hoover
#90. The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.
Peter Haggett
#91. The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.
Robert Barany
#92. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
Eugene V. Debs
#93. The tendency of mechanical progress is to make your environment safe and soft; and yet you are striving to keep yourself brave and hard ... So in the last analysis the champion of progress is also the champion of anachronisms.
George Orwell
#94. Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts.
Ludwig Von Bertalanffy
#95. The great adventures which our opponents offer is a voyage into the past. Progress is our heritage, not theirs. What is right for us as Democrats is also the right way for Democrats to win.
Edward Kennedy
#96. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#97. Measuring progress is often like watching grass grow. While it's difficult to detect movement on a daily basis, it's simple to see growth over time.
Frank Sonnenberg
#98. I do a lot of things hopin I never had to fit in, so tryin to keep up with my progress is like a dead end.
Drake
#100. Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn't particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.
Seth Godin
