Quotes About Progress

#1. Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.

Francois Bourguignon

#2. Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.

Michael Polanyi

#3. Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

John Clapham

#4. Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

Francis Bacon

#5. Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

Booker T. Washington

#6. Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#7. You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Shirley Chisholm

#8. Philosophy has been a masked ball in which a religious image of humankind is renewed in the guise humanist ideas of progress and enlightenment. Even philosophy's greatest unmaskers have ended up as figures in the masquerade. Removing the masks from our animal faces is a task that has hardly begun.

John N. Gray

#9. For life, it doesn't matter how much you earn and how you hold your different relationships, but what's important for life is, what kind of progress, you have achieved from inside, while going through different aspects of life.

Roshan Sharma

#10. Before we can progress in providing answers ... we have to repent of our questions.

Peter J. Leithart

#11. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.

Victor Hugo

#12. Allow your acceptance of that to be a transformative experience. You do that by simply looking it square in the face and then moving on. You don't have to move fast or far. You can go just an inch. You can mark your progress breath by breath.

Cheryl Strayed

#13. Without deviation progress is not possible.

Frank Zappa

#14. Human progress has depended on enlarging the circle of compassion.

Carl Safina

#15. What I mean is that we were ambitious, in a way that would have been unusual a generation before, to serve gentlemen who were, so to speak, furthering the progress of humanity.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#16. There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results.

Nick Saban

#17. While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic in the conversations. The tipping points seem to be racing towards us a lot faster than people thought.

Gwynne Dyer

#18. Though varying wishes, hopes, and fears,
Fever'd the progress of these years,
Yet now, days, weeks, and months but seem
The recollection of a dream.

Walter Scott

#19. Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

Bertrand Russell

#20. Discipline is the greatest thing in the world. Where there is no discipline, there is no character. And without character, there is no progress ...

James C. Collins

#21. But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will.

Barbara Kingsolver

#22. Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nicholas M. Butler

#23. Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress ...

John Muir

#24. Set your goals-without goals you cannot measure your progress. But don't become frustrated because there are no obvious victories. Remind yourself that striving can be more important than arriving.

Marvin J. Ashton

#25. There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.

Andrew Young

#26. What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed

Seneca The Younger

#27. When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.

Anne Lamott

#28. When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.

Seneca The Younger

#29. Shutting down discussion is self-defeating and impedes progress. We need to talk and listen and debate and refute and instruct and learn and evolve.

Sheryl Sandberg

#30. If progressives were interested in mitigating inequality, they would support the dynamism of free markets to allow the merit of ideas, products and services to win the day rather than stifle companies and pick winners in the name of imagined 'progress.'

David Harsanyi

#31. Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.

William Ellery Channing

#32. See what monkeys we are! Look, such is man! and at once all renown, all intelligence, all the attainments of the spirit, all progress towards the sublime, the great and the enduring in man fell away and became a monkey's trick!

Hermann Hesse

#33. If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.

Crazy Legs

#34. Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family

Kofi Annan

#35. The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

Andy Rooney

#36. Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

Kelly Rowland

#37. As long as you believe that you can achieve and progress in it you will succeed

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#38. While you live your life aboard the ship of life be aware of the sea of life on which it floats and on which it moves forward; be aware of the prevailing winds and currents that influence your progress as the master of the ship.

Ian Gardner

#39. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.

Richard P. Feynman

#40. Progress is not possible without discipline. A nation, institution, family or individual can advance only by heeding the words of those who deserve respect and by obeying the appropriate rules and regulations. Children, obedience is not weakness. Obedience with humility leads to discipline.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#41. We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Richard Flanagan

#42. An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.

Gary L. Francione

#43. Progress means to be true to the world, If we need to make a change.

Auliq Ice

#44. The progress of history is to take the impossible and turn it into the possible.

Ralph Nader

#45. Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.

Taiichi Ohno

#46. As medical progress has extended our lives, the result has been what's called the "rectangularization" of survival.

Atul Gawande

#47. In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

Linda Ronstadt

#48. We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from making progress.

Nathan Seiberg

#49. Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

Franz Grillparzer

#50. The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

Winston Churchill

#51. Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-old debates about the role of government for all time - but it does require us to act in our time,

Barack Obama

#52. I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

#53. The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection.

Pope Gregory I

#54. It's never easy moving forward in life. But if you want to prosper & enjoy life ... keep moving ahead on that road. Forward progress is always the wisest choice anyone can make.

Timothy Pina

#55. If you look at any successful person, at the start they were not balanced, balanced people go nowhere. They stay in one spot. To make progress you must first go unbalanced. Just look at how you make progress walking

Robert Kiyosaki

#56. I think if I pick the right thing to spend my time doing, then time moves differently, because I really can get fully immersed in things and feel very alive and challenged, but in a good way. I feel a sense of progress.

Demetri Martin

#57. Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#58. For the former, activity, any kind of activity, was an end in itself; for the latter, activity was but a progress toward the true end, which was rest, and peace of mind. Action was to be undertaken only when equilibrium was disturbed.

Olaf Stapledon

#59. Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

Andy Stanley

#60. I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

Joe Lieberman

#61. Progress is mostly the product of rogues.

Tom Peters

#62. We are beloved spirit sons and daughters of heavenly parents, with a divine nature and destiny. Our Savior, Jesus Christ, loved us enough to give His life for us. His Atonement provides the way for us to progress on the path to our heavenly home, through sacred priesthood ordinances and covenants.

Carole M. Stephens

#63. If there is progress then there is a novel.

William Carlos Williams

#64. No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient! It might be good if we stopped using the terms 'victory' and 'defeat' to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms 'obedience' and 'disobedience.

Jerry Bridges

#65. Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.

Paul J. Meyer

#66. That was the moment we understood that things can go terribly wrong in our world - not because life is unfair or moral progress impossible but because we have failed, generation after generation, to abolish the delusions and animosities of our ignorant ancestors.

Sam Harris

#67. Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#68. We must see that regional imbalances in the growth of various parties of the country are removed and all the states progress evenly. We shall ensure that all citizens of the country get full opportunity to contribute their might towards India's progress.

Rajiv Gandhi

#69. Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.

Ludwig Von Mises

#70. I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#71. To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.

Epictetus

#72. The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.

Robert Southey

#73. Education is the key to progress and success for human beings and for a nation.

Debasish Mridha

#74. A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize the good life is simply conforming to a standard of right and justice. The joys of happiness can only be realized by living lofty principles.

Marvin J. Ashton

#75. It's been a long struggle. But we've made huge progress. I mean, when I started at Berkeley, women weren't allowed to be part of the band. No women were allowed into the male faculty club. I mean, I was there. I remember that! The worlds were so divided. So the change has been huge.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#76. False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Charles Darwin

#77. Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

Ralph G. Neas

#78. You cannot ask for forgiveness without acknowledging that there is something in life that is more important than the progress of your own kingdom.

Paul David Tripp

#79. Any company run by unknowing and mechanistic minds is in jeopardy and faces a limited life. Specifically, the pursuance of policies that focus on cost reduction and a continued optimisation of the bottom line just accelerate progress towards sudden death

Peter Cochrane

#80. Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

James Thurber

#81. What is the thing that matters most to making progress right now?

Dick Costolo

#82. A man would rather break his donkeys back than give it the carrot it requires to progress.

R.P. Falconer

#83. The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?

F. W. De Klerk

#84. Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car.

James Adams

#85. Once upon a time, I had a grasp of concepts like "motivation" and "investment" and "progress." I am not even sure now that those are words.

Ryan Parmenter

#86. I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.

Brian Greene

#87. I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'

Jerry Saltz

#88. You can tell a lot about the intellectual and moral progress of a nation's citizens, by the quality and nature of the films they watch.

Abhijit Naskar

#89. Although we are aware that North Korea is attaching importance to the liquidation of the past, that is difficult unless there is progress over the abduction issue.

Koichi Haraguchi

#90. The progress of science depends much less upon either theoretical considerations or systematic investigation than is commonly believed, but rather on the transmittal of reliable information, gained by chance or insight, from one set of men to their successors.

Gene Wolfe

#91. Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine.

Erich Fromm

#92. Progress IS Success

Shaun J. Phree

#93. Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things.

Wayne Dyer

#94. Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#95. It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control it-as if technology were an irrepressible force of nature to which we must meekly submit.

Hyman Rickover

#96. War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Thomas Paine

#97. We are not race blind. Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United States of America has made enormous progress in race relations, and it is still the best place on Earth to be a minority.

Condoleezza Rice

#98. And in all of us there is at least a tinge of that habit of mind. In every country in the world the large army of scientists and technicians, with the rest of us panting at their heels, is marching along the road of 'progress' with the blind persistence of a column of ants.

George Orwell

#99. In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress.

Tim Murphy

#100. I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.

Paul Cezanne