Quotes About Progress

#1. Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress. - Author: Michael N. Castle

#2. Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well. - Author: Roberto Azevedo

#3. Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is an unsociable, wrong-headed fellow working on unprofitable lines, and in his hands lies the hope of discovery. - Author: Ernest Rutherford

#4. Believe me, my journey has not been a simple journey of progress. There have been many ups and downs, and it is the choices that I made at each of those times that have helped shape what I have achieved. - Author: Satya Nadella

#5. Each successive period of progress is a period more humane and spiritual. The only logical conclusion is that all is Mind and its manifestation, from the rolling of worlds, in the most subtle ether, to a potato-patch. - Author: Mary Baker Eddy

#6. We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races. - Author: Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

#7. Were man to devote as much time and energy to himself as he has devoted to that which man has produced, what astounding and unbelievable progress would be made; a progress eclipsing all he has so far successfully accomplished ... - Author: Joseph Pilates

#8. One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day's work. Look at the progress of the day towards the end and ask yourself: 'Have I done a good day's work?' - Author: David Heinemeier Hansson

#9. There's no straight line to progress. - Author: Barack Obama

#10. Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ... One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years! - Author: Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#11. Dates that come around every year help us measure progress in our lives. One annual event, New Year's Day, is a time of reflection and resolution. - Author: Joseph B. Wirthlin

#12. We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty. - Author: Simon Sinek

#13. We have all our own way and Possibilities to progress in life, if somebody think to put others away from his path, many power to be consumed for doing that, happy day my Friend keep Smiling. - Author: Jan Jansen

#14. Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior. - Author: Charlie Chaplin

#15. I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully you're not going to find the fisticuffs that you would find on lots of other issues. I think you'll be able to glean a sense of progress without us revealing the specifics. - Author: Charles Schumer

#16. On Pilgrim's Progress: I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors. - Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#17. Be wary of the praise of men; don't let it pump you up unnecessarily and don't let it paralyze your progress - Author: Bernard Kelvin Clive

#18. The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit. - Author: Bernard Lown

#19. A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization. - Author: Wilhelm Dilthey

#20. Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective. - Author: Crystal Woods

#21. I'm happy with my language progress - the only difficulty when I tour Premier League matches is that different people talk to me in different accents - and sometimes I can hardly understand a word! - Author: Fabio Capello

#22. But progress is always dangerous, isn't it? Most of the time, walls don't get dismantled brick by brick. Someone has to crash through them. - Author: Cristin Terrill

#23. The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here. - Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#24. I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others. - Author: Alexander McCall Smith

#25. The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite. - Author: Bill Gates

#26. I am tired of making history. I want to make progress. - Author: Mark Anthony Peterson

#27. The more you progress, the more you learn. I try to pay attention to ticket counts, draws, guarantees and bonuses. I look at my deals closely these days and try to come up with other projects and ideas, since this business [comedy] is about creating content. - Author: Hannibal Buress

#28. Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. - Author: Franz Kafka

#29. Many people give the appearance of progress by shedding the prejudices and irrational postulates of one generation only to acquire those of the next. - Author: T. S. Eliot

#30. By 7:55 am on December 7, World War II in the Pacific had been in progress for more than eight hours. - Author: Jeffrey Cox

#31. But it is clear that no political activity can be encouraged by saying that progress is natural and inevitable; that is not a reason for being active, but rather a reason for being lazy. - Author: G.K. Chesterton

#32. The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated. - Author: Mercy Otis Warren

#33. Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship. - Author: Kevin A. Ford

#34. All genuine progress results from finding new facts. No law can be passed to make an acre yield three hundred bushels. God has already established the laws. It is four us to discover them, and to learn the facts by which we can obey them. - Author: Wheeler McMillen

#35. What's with the strange clothes?"
I smile through my labored breath, pleased to be making progress. "Where I'm from, you'd be the one dressed strangely."
Thank goodness, she slows a bit. "And what planet is that again?"
"Er. Canada. - Author: Cyn Balog

#36. Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth. - Author: Rush Limbaugh

#37. We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them. - Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#38. Do you know that all great spurts in ... progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system? - Author: Anatol Rapoport

#39. Well, I would say that we've got to redefine democracy, that we have been stuck in concepts of representative democracy, that we believe that it's getting other people to do things for us that we progress. - Author: Grace Lee Boggs

#40. People and relationships never stop being a work in progress - Author: Nora Roberts

#41. A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way. - Author: Julia Cameron

#42. Developing spirituality is critical to our eternal progress. The fruits of eternal progress are manifest in joy, peace, love, hope, increased confidence in the Lord. - Author: Elaine L. Jack

#43. My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go. - Author: Dean Koontz

#44. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society. - Author: Alfred North Whitehead

#45. The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy. - Author: Rabindranath Tagore

#46. {In the shadows where the ancestors sleep, the bird's song is young, but all else is old. Stillness surrounds me and I breathe softly expecting the unexpected.} from book in progress - Author: Nancy B. Brewer

#47. Mechanism! Everywhere
mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from. - Author: John Galsworthy

#48. Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence. - Author: Charles Sumner

#49. Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop. - Author: Robert Musil

#50. If you take one typewriter and build 100, you've made horizontal progress. If you have a typewriter and build a word processor, you have made vertical progress. - Author: Peter Thiel

#51. The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. - Author: George Bernard Shaw

#52. The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women. - Author: Swami Vivekananda

#53. Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. - Author: Thomas J. Watson

#54. A President must call on many persons
some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home. - Author: Lyndon B. Johnson

#55. Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts. - Author: Baruch Spinoza

#56. Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress. - Author: Abhijit Naskar

#57. I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track.We'll support positive suggestions that we'll bring forward and support the government when it's making progress. - Author: Jack Layton

#58. In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great. - Author: Dalai Lama

#59. There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. - Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg

#60. The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe. - Author: Stephen Hawking

#61. Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. - Author: George Orwell

#62. These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#63. Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed that she has become enervated, her mind to some extent paralyzed; and like those still more degraded by personal bondage she hugs her chains. - Author: Lucretia Mott

#64. Never confuse movement with action. - Author: Ernest Hemingway,

#65. Adversity is the mother of progress. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#66. 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. - Author: John Jay Chapman

#67. Progress is a fine thing, but it's gone on long enough. - Author: Ogden Nash

#68. The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. - Author: Madame De Stael

#69. The progress of science still depends on "a few people of vision". - Author: Lewis M. Branscomb

#70. The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion. - Author: Friedrich August Von Hayek

#71. The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand. - Author: Bill Gates

#72. The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others. - Author: Milton Friedman

#73. The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress. - Author: Sydney J. Harris

#74. Inconvenience is the road to progress - Author: Irene Fantopoulos

#75. If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial? - Author: Henry David Thoreau

#76. take unorthodox ideas seriously today, and the mainstream sees that as a sign of progress. We can be glad that there are fewer crazy cults now, yet that gain has come at great cost: we have given up our sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered. - Author: Peter Thiel

#77. Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived ... I'm still learning all the time. - Author: Renee Fleming

#78. There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are. - Author: Jonathan Kozol

#79. A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism. - Author: Irving Babbitt

#80. Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it. - Author: Pablo Picasso

#81. Despite our perennial bad behavior, our moral progress seems to me unmistakable. - Author: Sam Harris

#82. The Devil loved watching children pour down the front steps of the high school like lava from a volcano. Trolling for souls. He posed in one of his favorite guises today, a school bus driver. - Author: Serena Schreiber

#83. IF EVERYONE HAS A full circle of human qualities to complete, then progress lies in the direction we haven't been. - Author: Gloria Steinem

#84. I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. - Author: Bertrand Russell

#85. Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress. - Author: Kim Campbell

#86. Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven ... My message certainly is not one of complacency. In this I agree with the doomsayers: our world needs the best efforts of all humanity to improve our lot. - Author: Julian Simon

#87. Some call it progress, regeneration, rebirth. Many people call it other things. - Author: John Stanley

#88. The reality however is that in order to make progress in life, we have to embrace discomfort. - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#89. A nation has to take its natural course
Of Progress round and round in circles
From King to Mob to King to Mob to King
Until the eddy of it eddies out. - Author: Robert Frost

#90. The closeness of the India-Afghanistan relationship is not a new phenomenon. It has existed since time immemorial. And as a close friend, ever since India's Independence, we have done and will continue to do whatever is required to be done to see Afghanistan grow and progress as a close friend. - Author: Narendra Modi

#91. Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress. - Author: Wendell Phillips

#92. Progress does take time, it doesn't matter how slowly or fast you go, it will sure come". - Author: Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#93. The effectance motive helps explain the progress principle: We get more pleasure from making progress toward our goals than we do from achieving them because, as Shakespeare said, Joy's soul lies in the doing. - Author: Jonathan Haidt

#94. When things in your life do not make sense, keep on praying. Ask God what He wants you to do, and let Him heal you on the inside. He understands that you and I are not perfect. We are works in progress, but we should let Him work within us. - Author: Nick Vujicic

#95. May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world. - Author: Swami Vivekananda

#96. Always continue to perform no matter what or where the activity is: local theater, regional theater, local clubs or coffee shops. Continue to play the guitar or your instrument and always continue to progress or otherwise you will fail. - Author: Tony Vincent

#97. Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#98. William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knowsbut that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth? - Author: Johan Huizinga

#99. To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from. - Author: Sylvain Tesson

#100. We are all just a work in progress. - Author: Mary J. Blige