Progress Quotes

Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

Progress is made where progress is measured.

The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

For all the progress, we recognize we're very far from the finish line.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

I see a little progress, ... So as long as I keep seeing that, then I'm willing to give him everything I've got.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.

Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.

Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.

The releasing of attachment to object and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in my human progress toward being.

The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

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

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.

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.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

I would say national security is work in progress.

What is amazing is how stuck people are in their own habits. It is really hard to get people out of their habits. But once they shift, it also is amazing how rapid the progress can be.

Progress is mostly the product of rogues.

Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time.

History says that progress often requires sacrifice, but what kind of progress can we claim when it is built on the lives of the citizens it is supposed to aid?

Progress is more important than perfection.

Developing spirituality is critical to our eternal progress. The fruits of eternal progress are manifest in joy, peace, love, hope, increased confidence in the Lord.

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

It's not about success, it's about progress.

The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin.

Van Halen is a work in progress.

What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.

A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.

Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.