Quotes About Struggle And Progress

#1. Let us remember that humanity's story has only two perennially recurring themes: struggle and progress.

Brendon Burchard

#2. The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them (pg. 52).

Ayn Rand

#3. Whether serving in the military, building industry, organizing politically, or making their way in any other part of American culture, the Irish were determined to create a free and prosperous life for themselves. This Irish-American struggle led to social and political progress for all Americans.

Rashers Tierney

#4. Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

George Gurdjieff

#5. Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

Rosa Luxemburg

#6. The man who believes he can do it is probably right.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#7. Without struggle there can be no forward progress!

Frederick Douglass

#8. I'm aware that I can be annoying.

Sandra Bullock

#9. You see people literally in a different galaxy who are paying extraordinarily low rates of tax.

Nick Clegg

#10. Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.

Charles Spurgeon

#11. Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.

Horace Mann

#12. Only a loyal, determined struggle to destroy cultural aggression and bring out the truth, whatever it may be, is revolutionary and consonant with real progress; it is the only approach which opens on to the universal. Humanitarian declarations are not called for and add nothing to real progress.

Cheikh Anta Diop

#13. The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

Booker T. Washington

#14. In something like an instant the man had changed his life. He reinvented his relationship to the world around him in a way that is considered normal only in California.

Michael Lewis

#15. There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

William Ralph Inge

#16. Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#17. Without struggle there is no progress.

Allison Woyiwada

#18. I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.

David Nevins

#19. 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

#20. Have a very good reason for everything you do.

Laurence Olivier

#21. Must simplicity and humanity go under in the interest of progress? What is the most important component of civilization - is it human or mechanical? Must thought processes become involved and insincere? Must the class-struggle warp those who are involved in it?

Peter Abrahams

#22. In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be so, for without its onslaughts and depredations humanity might fall to a fat slumber upon its cornsacks and die snoring.

James Stephens

#23. Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable ... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#24. Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

Katha Pollitt

#25. I'm okay with standing in my way and in turn allowing it to impede my progress, but I'm okay with the struggle of overcoming obstacles despite myself.

Josh McDermitt

#26. Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.

Roland Barthes

#27. Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

Oscar Niemeyer

#28. Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Frederick Douglass

#29. As Frederick Douglass said, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#30. Change often brings unimagined opportunity ... If there is no struggle, there is no progress. To live in a safe cocoon- I believe that is not truly living. It is stagnation.

Syrie James

#31. The thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress.

Francis Frangipane

#32. Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.

Haruki Murakami

#33. Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.

Matt Groening

#34. I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.

Steven Pinker

#35. History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#36. Science fiction is huge and varied, and there's almost any sort of book or story you might imagine.

Ann Leckie

#37. Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.
Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas, - this is the very struggle of progress.

Victor Hugo

#38. Where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress

Eric Thomas