Progress Quotes
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.
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.
Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?
I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over me than I took over it.
Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people .
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.
Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.
Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.
Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.
A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.
The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.
Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress.
I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.
Progress is personal; it comes from individuals demanding more of themselves and everyone else.
Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.
There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.
Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.
Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground.
I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.
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.
The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.
Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.
The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.
If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress.
To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working.
Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.
When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.
I believe that meetings at the top level in a relatively informal atmosphere are always useful, and there is reason to hope that we will make progress in resolving the matters we will be considering.
One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and on whether we meet our challenges and protect our values.