Progress Quotes

Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

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

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

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

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

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!

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

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

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

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

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

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

A youth with wings are the assurance of our nation's future. We must start to work right away and make progress so that; if one day Westerners leave their footprints on the moon, we shall place a Turkish one among those.

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.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

War is progress, peace is stagnation

Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

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

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. ... want of attention to pecuniary matters ... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of that. Sickness and death are part of life. But you can optimize your life. You can make progress as you strive toward perfection.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

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

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.

Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

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

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.