Progress Quotes
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.
Although we are aware that North Korea is attaching importance to the liquidation of the past, that is difficult unless there is progress over the abduction issue.
This city, all they want us to be is ourselves. You love us how we are. We’re all a work in progress as men and you still love us and I thank you so much for embracing us.
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.
You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
Environmental challenges have the power to deny equality of opportunity and hold back the progress of communities.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.
But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.
I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong.
We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.
I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.
Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled.
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
The best and most clear indicator that we are progressing spiritually and coming unto Christ is the way we treat other people.
You're progressing on something and that's what it's all about. You wanna keep moving, having a progress in your life.
The thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress.
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection balanced by a sense of direction and progress.
Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.
No matter how far society “progresses,” our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need.
The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.
It is very rewarding to feel and see progress. I am going to put my head down and keep plugging away. I believe the best is yet to come.
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.
The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.
The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.
Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.
