Progress Quotes

Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.

You're always a work in progress. Flexibility. Personality. Motivation. There's always room to improve.

There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.]

Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don't be afraid of innovation. Don't be afraid of ideas that are not your own.

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress.

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

An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress

Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

A lot of people confuse free climbing with free solo. Free climbing is when we use ropes, but we only make upward progress with our bodies.

When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.

... the kids do what no one expects them to do. That's progress.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.

How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

Launch and learn. Everything is progress.

The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

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.

How dismal is progress without publicity.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.

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

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

Impossible? The word is a roadblock to progress!

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

Rome was not built in one day.

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

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.

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

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.

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.