Sayings About Making Progress

#1. 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.

Jack Layton

#2. 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.

Jonathan Haidt

#3. 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.

Cyn Balog

#4. If we had continued making progress at the rate we were during the Carter administration, we would be free of oil imports from Saudi Arabia today.

Jay Inslee

#5. For them it's not about immediate perfection. It's about learning something over time: confronting a challenge and making progress.

Carol S. Dweck

#6. The more both sides follow the example of those intrepid early diplomats to bridge the gaps in understanding and interests, the better chance we will have of making progress.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#7. 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.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#8. As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.

Confucius

#9. And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a possible psychological problem. You know, when I was in Vietnam, it was just considered malingering. And we're making progress.

Karl Marlantes

#10. What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?

Paul Gauguin

#11. Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.

Florence Nightingale

#12. The [Wal-Mart] corporate culture lagged way behind many other American corporations in terms of making progress on women's issues, and that had a lot to do with being based in northwest Arkansas.

Liza Featherstone

#13. I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types - chemists and physicists and biologists and such - and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

#14. When you stop making excuses, you start making progress!

Lasean Rinique

#15. I think we're making progress. We understand where the power of this country lay. It lies in the hearts and souls of Americans. It must lay in our pocketbooks. It lies in the willingness for people to work hard.

George W. Bush

#16. In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.

Malala Yousafzai

#17. So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right now and if you're not doing it, you're not making progress at the fastest possible rate.

Joel Spolsky

#18. Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

Colin Powell

#19. Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

Seth Godin

#20. Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.

Wayne Dyer

#21. Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.

Malcolm Fraser

#22. In life, it take strides forward, but you always take a few steps back. But in the end, if you take more steps forward than backward, you're making progress.

Carmen Rodrigues

#23. You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.

Robert Breault

#24. If you get the U.N. to say we're going to solve the Syrian problem, if you get the Russians involved in a productive posture, you are making progress, but the Republican core says no strategy or failed strategy.

Juan Williams

#25. The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'

Stephen Covey

#26. How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Niels Bohr

#27. I'm making progress of my own: Kat invites me to a house party. Unfortunately, I can't go. I can never go to any parties, because my shift starts at precisely party o'clock.

Robin Sloan

#28. Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations.

Vito Fossella

#29. Your job is to keep making progress in claiming the life you want to live, one day at a time, one choice at a time.

Anonymous

#30. It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.

Robert Gibbs

#31. It's not the troubles we run into, it's what we do about them which determines their net effect upon our lives ... by the very act of trying, our spirit is making progress.

Nick Baylis

#32. If you push yourself to stay hungry, you're always working towards at least taking steps forward. If you're taking steps forward, then you're making progress.

G-Eazy

#33. The secret of making progress is to get started.

Mark Twain

#34. We always get dressings and sauces on the side. However, we definitely like our glass of wine - or three sometimes. We order dessert but just take a few bites. I stopped buying processed foods. The hardest part is teaching this to our kids, but slowly we're making progress.

Dayna Devon

#35. While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.

Earl Blumenauer

#36. Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.

Fatos Nano

#37. I think you would have to be a nihilist to say that we are not making progress on cancer, just like you'd have to be hubristically optimistic to say that we have conquered cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#38. If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.

Idries Shah

#39. One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

H. Rap Brown

#40. The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.

T. Harv Eker

#41. Trust in Him Trust the Word of God more than you trust the lies of the devil, and keep making progress!

Joyce Meyer

#42. And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.

John Dramani Mahama

#43. You must have a sincere and burning desire to achieve what you dream, dedicate yourself to making progress, and take control of your circumstances to change your body.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#44. Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.

Bill Shuster

#45. But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.

Paulo Coelho

#46. I went to work one morning, and outside my door was Cindy Crawford in a black bra, and I thought that very clearly the building is making progress in integrating itself into various layers of our culture.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#47. We are making progress militarily, there is no doubt about that. You've seen the reports from Misrata, although reports of the Gaddafi forces completely pulling out of Misrata seem to be exaggerated.

William Hague

#48. Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity.

Pearl Zhu

#49. Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Franz Grillparzer

#50. The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.

David Axelrod

#51. When I meet with most entrepreneurial teams, I ask them a simple question: How do you know that you're making progress? Most of them really can't answer that question.

Eric Ries

#52. To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn't do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.

Noam Chomsky

#53. We are confusing making "progress" with eradicating the larger problem.

Carlos Wallace

#54. Life without making progress is dead. What is life if you don't embrace new truths that scare you, meet people who intimidate you, and so on.

Assegid Habtewold

#55. I am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem.

Patricia Churchland

#56. In the case of those who are making progress from good to better, the good angel touches the soul gently, lightly, sweetly, as a drop of water enters a sponge, while the evil spirit touches it sharply, with noise and disturbance, like a drop of water falling on a rock.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#57. Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress

Katsuaki Watanabe

#58. Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

Joan Aiken

#59. The only way you're going to be defeated is if you allow your brain to shut down your body. If you stop making progress, you're damned.

Toni Sorenson

#60. Progressives believe in making progress, which is why I'm proud to endorse Hillary Clinton, who I know will continue fighting to ensure our children and grandchildren can achieve their highest and best dreams.

Thomas Perez

#61. So we are steaming along without any landmark; we can't gauge our speed. We are making progress and yet nothing is changing. It's not navigation but dreaming.

Albert Camus

#62. I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's.

John Foster Dulles

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

Brian Greene

#64. 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

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

Dick Costolo

#66. 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

#67. We've ceased making progress at the top in any industry anywhere in the world . In the United States, women have had 14% of the top corporate jobs and 17% of the board seats for 10 years. Ten years of no progress.

Sheryl Sandberg

#68. People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#69. We have to ask, 'How can we break a huge challenge like sending humans to Mars into a series of doable, affordable steps? How can we break that problem down into chunks in order to keep making progress?'

Ellen Stofan

#70. She was probably having a few murderous thoughts of her own about any woman that touched him. Good, they were making progress.

R.L. Mathewson

#71. These various remedies, eugenic, educational, ethical, populist and socialist, all assume that either the voters are inherently competent to direct the course of affairs or that they are making progress towards such an ideal. I think [democracy] is a false ideal.

Walter Lippmann

#72. I am tired of making history. I want to make progress.

Mark Anthony Peterson

#73. And the Middle East, well, I think we can all see what we've made there. What a hand we've had in the making of our own demise. How masterful. And the world will continue to be melted by a sun we've crossed terribly with our progress.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#74. So with each advance in understanding come new questions. So we need to be very humble. We shouldn't have hubris and think that we can understand everything. But history tells us that there is good reason to believe that we will continue making fantastic progress in the years ahead.

Max Tegmark

#75. As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making.

Kit Bond

#76. Don't worry about making mistakes. In fact, the more mistakes you make, the more progress you are making. Just don't repeat the same mistakes.

Mike Michalowicz

#77. Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#78. There is simply no way we are going to make progress on the enormous challenges we face without making hard choices. It's impossible.

Michael Bennet

#79. I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep the promise I made to myself, but the progress that the world is making toward peace seems like the crawling of a little child, very halting and slow.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#80. I am now more sure than ever that we're going to have a bipartisan bill ... making incredible progress.

Mario Diaz-Balart

#81. Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid!

Joyce Meyer

#82. Right. As opposed to your cradle-robbing mentor. I don't really see you making much progress with him.

Richelle Mead

#83. One of the hardest things for me as an exec was always, particularly as you progress further in the system, is that you're pushed further away from the day to day, the mechanics of making a movie.

Hutch Parker

#84. The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of the monetary unit. The more inflation progresses, the higher rises the national income.

Ludwig Von Mises

#85. The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.

Sigmund Freud

#86. I want to get better. That's the only way to progress. So I'm just young having fun making music.

Drake

#87. I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

Rafael Nadal

#88. I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities.

George Strait

#89. It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Jim Rohn

#90. [Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

George Bernard Shaw

#91. Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.

Robert Breault

#92. The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.

Ben Bernanke

#93. As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long as the nation refuses to acknowledge the equal role of more than half of itself, it is doomed to failure.

Nelson Mandela

#94. Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

Alvin Ailey

#95. It hapens very often that parents think they are worred about the progress a boy is making. they do not realise that all boys are numskulls with o branes which is not surprising when you look at the parents really the whole thing goes on and on and there is no stoping it it is a vicious circle.

Geoffrey Willans

#96. Engineers are, by definition, people whose work is dedicated to making people's lives easier; or, as people used to say, whose work is dedicated to progress.

Edward Teller

#97. I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it ... and a bit of confidence maybe.

Dexter Fletcher

#98. All progress begins with a decision. Effective leadership requires decisive action. Embrace the process of deciding, yet recognize when you have reached a choice point.

Angie Morgan

#99. I came to L.A. for pilot season, and it was so brutal. So brutal. But still, I just want to be making forward progress. There's lots of ideas about being a superstar. But my idea of being a superstar is just going forward and having new challenges and trying out new things.

Kelly McCreary

#100. If we make ourselves worthy of America's ideals, if we do not forget that our nation was founded on the premise that all men are creatures of God's making, the world will come to know that it is free men who carry forward the true promise of human progress and dignity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower