Progress Quotes

The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change.

Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.

We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds.

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

Even one justice can advance or reverse the progress of our journey.

Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.

The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.

There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

The goal is to keep the dialogue open. There are issues in the USA that a lot of people feel strongly about. The goal is just to fix those issues. To make progress on those issues.

Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

All progress comes from the creative minority.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

I don't suspect that in many instances the artists who are dedicated in that fashion to the progress of that community are as well protected by the community as might be necessary.

Progress is the mother of all problems.

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.

I support special forces. I support trainers. I support the air campaign. And I think we're making some progress. I want to continue to intensify that, and that's exactly what the president is doing.

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

To one who loves his country in all its parts, it is natural to rejoice in whatever contributes to the prosperity and honor and marks the stability and progress of any portion of its people.

We must know the difference between sweat and tears. Sweat is wet. Tears are wet. Sweat is salty. Tears are salty. But progress comes through sweat. Progress never came through tears.

I sing the progress of a deathless soul.

Progress occurs one apology at a time.

A river continually fed by a living fountain may as soon end its streams before it come to the ocean, as a stop be put to the course and progress of grace before it issue in glory.

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow... Like a Coach and six - the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

I like progress but I hate change.

I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually.

Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.

I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.

The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress.

You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.

So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

I think expectations of Doctor Who should always be high, because it's a show that must always progress and get better and better.

Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.

Focusing on solutions fuels progress.

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.

Everywhere, and at all times, economic progress has meant far more to the poor than to the rich.

India's role is not to interfere in what Nepal does but to support Nepal in their development. Nepal should scale new heights of progress.

There is no reason to be disappointed. India will progress very fast and the skills of our youth will take India ahead.

How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.

Good men and women can be mobilized to ensure that South Africa is united and that the spirit of reconciliation is strengthened and that progress in this country takes place as fast as it can.

Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.

It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.

In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.