Progress Quotes

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

No competition, no progress.

Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.

The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

Like everyone else, I don't want it to get too far away from the racing because as time progresses, we're trying to get new fans and still keep the old fans and we've still got to have the racing.

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

All human progress is preceded by new questions

Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.

Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.

Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things.

I'm a patient person. I think that's one thing that I feel comfortable I can deal with - the downfall and the errors, as long as I see progress and people trying.

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

The tennis world is constantly changing. What's true today may be wrong tomorrow. If you don't make progress, others will and you will be overtaken.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

Progress equals happiness.

One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.

I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of projects.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

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.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an encouraging friend of yours, who is helping you to arrive at your ultimate destination.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

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.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.