Progress Quotes

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

Progress means simplifying, not complicating

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.

Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress.

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

Progress is impossible without change

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.

Do you know the warm progress under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom? Have you been born yet & are you alive?

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

A wise man sees failure as progress. A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, And loses his soul in the process.

Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.

Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.

National security is vital for economic and social progress.

To achieve progress and development it is necessary to bring about co-ordination between liberty and security through Devotion.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

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.