Motivational Quotes

Progress

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

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Progress

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

Grenfell, Joyce

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

Curie, Madame Marie

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Gordimer, Nadine

The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Orwell, George

Nothing recedes like progress.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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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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The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Miller, Henry

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Progress is the stride of God.

Hugo, Victor

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

Roth, Philip

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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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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.

Proverb

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

Pantanjali

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Harris, Sidney 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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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 reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Havelock Ellis

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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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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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The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Today's progress was yesterday's plan.

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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

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

Proverb, Swedish

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

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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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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

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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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The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

Kennedy, John F.

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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it rallies the stragglers, its stopping places when it meditates, contemplating some new and splendid promised land that has suddenly appeared on its horizon. It has its nights of slumber; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker to see the human spirit lost in shadow, and to grope in the darkness without being able to awake sleeping progress.

Hugo, Victor