Progress Quotes

The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.

Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.

Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.

Change is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

If you promote peace and progress for others, I don’t think you will have sleepless nights.

The leader’s joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life.

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing: that the human race has been badly manhandled, but that it has moved forward.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

To reach a port we must set sail –Sail, not tie at anchorSail, not drift.

Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?

The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.

Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.

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

Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken that slumbering Progress.

It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awake that slumbering Progress.

There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man’s mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City.

The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.

You Life is a progress, and not a station.

Change often brings unimagined opportunity...If there is no struggle, there is no progress. To live in a safe cocoon- I believe that is not truly living. It is stagnation.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step but you have to take it.

The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

Now here you see it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else you must run at least twice as fast as that!

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Progress - the stride of God!

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Fear is nothing but an enemy of progress. By all means don't permit it to win.

As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.

Arise, my friend – the world is wailing for kindness – it is wailing for compassion – it is wailing for love.

Humanity is not a word my friend. It is a symbol – a symbol of hope – a symbol of wisdom – yet this very symbol has become disgraced by our faults and deluded justification of mistakes.

The dynamic nature of knowledge is reflected in human progress and technological achievements.

Progress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning.

Don’t let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust the process. Be still, God has a plan!

Be skeptic, be doubtful, be rebellious towards every single dogma of the society. Only then there will be hope of progress for humanity.

What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!

Progress begins when you liberate your mind from the shackles of your ingrained tendencies of authoritarianism – the tendencies of greed – the tendencies of hatred, rage and lust.

True progress happens slowly, unnoticeable, like a flower blooms slowly and silently.

To move forward, you must first take a step

To move forward, one must take the first step

Moving forward requires that one first take a step.

Moving forward first requires a step to be taken.