Motivational Quotes

Progress

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Progress

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Grenfell, Joyce

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it necessary to recycle back through school after no more than ten years. In particular fast-moving technologies skills will become obsolete every five years or so.

Davies, Owen

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Russell Baker

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

Harris, Sidney J.

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.

Miller, Henry

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward.

Proverb, Swedish

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You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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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.

Susan Rice

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

Roth, Philip

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Today's progress was yesterday's plan.

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All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Bachelard, Gaston

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I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

Herzen, Alexander

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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Coolidge, Calvin

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All progress is experimental.

Chapman, John Jay

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Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Most people are in favor of progress, it's the changes they don't like.

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I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Lincoln, Abraham

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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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What we call'Progress'is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Havelock Ellis

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Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving.

Mayfield, Harold

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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

Nash, Ogden

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Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

Pantanjali

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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

Santayana, George

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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Addams, Jane

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With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.

Ferm, Ransom K.

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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Orwell, George

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If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

Allen, Charles M.

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When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

Thoreau, Henry David

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New roads; new ruts.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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You can't say that civilization don't advance... for in every war they kill you a new way.

Rogers, Will

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Renan, Ernest

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A lot of what appears to be progress is just so much technological rococo.

Grey, Bill

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My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

Eliot, George

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It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

Perot, H. Ross

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The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.

Barbara Hall

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A radical is one of whom people say He goes too far. A conservative, on the other hand, is one who doesn't go far enough. Then there is the reactionary, one who doesn't go at all. All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. They are bright, while the level below is still in darkness. But soon the light, which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain, and penetrates to the deepest valley. First come hints, then fragments of systems, then defective systems, then complete and harmonious systems. The sound opinion, held for a time by one bold speculator, becomes the opinion of a small minority, of a strong minority, of a majority of mankind. Thus, the great progress goes on.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

Kaiser, Henry J.

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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.

George Bernard Shaw

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The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

Simms, William Gilmore

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

Russell, Bertrand