Quotation Explorer - 'Progress'

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. - James Bryant Conant
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. - Havelock Ellis
What is the American fetish about highways?They want to get somewhere, LaBas offers.Because something is after them, Black Herman adds.But what is after them?They are after themselves. They call it destiny. Progress. - Ishmael Reed
Learning to let go of anyone that does not add to your progress is affirming your inner sense of purpose. Just Keep moving! - Chinonye J. Chidolue
Education is the key to progress and success for human beings and for a nation. - Debasish Mridha
Much of our time is spent just maintaining our emotional lives and physical conditions. To move ahead, we often have to clear a trail as we go. Progress and development do not occur without change in our motivations and actions. - James H. Bae
Success is a work in progress, failure is not the end of the road: it is the strength to continue that matters. - Ane Krstevska
In the joy of others lies our own,In the progress of others rests our own,In the good of others abides our own,Know this to be the key to peace and happiness - Pramukh Swami Maharaj
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself. - William Cobbett
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years. - Arthur C. Clarke
You can only see progress when you start doing something, so don't expect anything without your efforts. - Auliq Ice
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. - Anthony de Mello
Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean? - Nipsey Russell
True progress happens slowly, unnoticeable, like a flower blooms slowly and silently. - Debasish Mridha
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
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. - Mahatma Gandhi
You will never know how much progress you’ve made in life until you go back and start from the very beginning. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa
a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much out of little, breathes power into weak instruments, disarms difficulties, and even turns them into assistances. Every condition has means of progress, if we have spirit enough to use them. - William Ellery Channing
Most times and in most circumstances, what hinders real progress is never anything big, but the small things we least regard that impede real thinking and action for progress! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
As we grow and progress in life, a lot of things and people need to be left behind. Not for malice but as a necessity! - Chinonye J. Chidolue
They say if you're a better person today than you were yesterday you're well on the road to perfection. So I figure if I'm a real snot today, tomorrow I should make huge progress. - Richelle E. Goodrich
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change. - Alfred North Whitehead
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. - Don Marquis
If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it. - Susan Rice
Today's progress, was once yesterday's discussion. Speak aloud, see it through, and most importantly believe! - Tyconis D. Allison Ty
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 too little. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base.
The underprivileged are byproduct of society’s material progress. - Pawan Mishra
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism."[Address to National Press Club in Washington DC, as quoted in Freedom and Union (April 1952)] - Earl Warren
He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato. - Grant Morrison
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. - Mahatma Gandhi
The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it. - Jonathan Culver
Freedom's progress depends on disobedient children. - Marty Rubin
I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without a power behind. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Stay away from conflictive, negative people that pull you down, because they contaminate your energy and impede your progress. Search for people who look at the world with optimism, that inspire you, make you happy and provide peace of mind. - Pablo
Wherever there is peace, there is progress. - Amit Kalantri
Progress has a steep price. Success has an even steeper price. Your team won't be willing to pay it if you aren't willing to pay it. - T Jay Taylor
Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace. - Arnold Joseph Toynbee
All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler
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. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Man and woman are the two wheels of society. If either one becomes defective, the society cannot make progress. - Abhijit Naskar
Focus on progress, not perfection. - Josh Bezoni
"Know thyself," said the old philosopher, "improve thyself," saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Reading & Thinking Breeds limitless progress. - Auliq-Ice
It hapens very often that parents think they are worred about the progress a boy is making. they do not realise that all boys are numskulls with o branes which is not surprising when you look at the parents really the whole thing goes on and on and there is no stoping it it is a vicious circle. - Geoffrey Willans
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. - Edward de Bono
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
War erases progress, leaves no trace of improvement. - Graeme Smith
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. - Nikola Tesla
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made. - Oscar Wilde
The world is your canvas and your teacher.Take a day to reflect, measure and adjust on your goals; progress is essential to continued success. - Bob Proctor
leaders are those who has selfless service who motivate people with open agendafor combined progress - litymunshi
Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the imagination - James Christensen
They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast! - Dr. Seuss
Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. - F.W. Dupee
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. - Louis D. Brandeis
Many people consider the things which government does for them as social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism. - Earl Warren
When life stops you making progress, don't see it as a step backwards.Think of it as doing the Moonwalk. - Ben Chapman
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. - Robert A. Heinlein
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good. - Carl Sagan
Men may make progress, but man never changes. Man loves power and money. No matter the skin color, religion or income level. These symbols of our nation make men drunk with power, who then justify their lust for more by claiming they are public servants. - Glenn Beck
Often the greatest progress happen in the most difficult of times. - Jeanette Coron
A goal ensures progress. But one gets much further without a goal. - Marty Rubin
No one escapes some degree of chaos for it is so ever prevalent; it is the human experience. This realization does not mean we can’t improve. It does mean we can accept our state of chaos, lighten up on ourselves, have fun, and work on improving…we are a work in progress. Enjoy the journey. - David W. Earle
It is our past that defines who we are and gives us the courage to progress into the future without fear - Robert L J Borg
[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress. - Michelle Burford
Share your wisdom. It is the best way to help in the progress of life and humanity. - Debasish Mridha
We Indians are an extremely intelligent people but we can progress as a nation only when we learn the secret of unleashing this positive power of the people. Whenever this happens it disturbs a lot of people - because they know that a giant is waking up. - Verghese Kurien
As I ponder my pilgrim’s progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn’t make the trip alone, but in a two-seater. And I wasn’t the one driving. - Frederica Mathewes-Green
Knowledge is the key driver of the progress of civilization. - Eraldo Banovac
But it is clear that no political activity can be encouraged by saying that progress is natural and inevitable; that is not a reason for being active, but rather a reason for being lazy. - G.K. Chesterton
Self-awareness is inevitably erratic, a work in progress, an etch-a-sketch that shifts with the slightest shimmer of movement. Doing the best we can is the best we can do. - Narboe, Nan
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. - Alfred North Whitehead
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. - Tom Stoppard
Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.
We have to try to control what we can or else we cannot judge progress. - Lionel Suggs
Progress is made by walking down the path, more progress is made, by walking down the right path. - Dixie Waters
How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress. - Toni Sorenson
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. - George Santayana
In science, work (W) is done when force (F) move a body through a distance (D). It is the same with our every day affairs. When you don't progress, no work is done irrespective of the force (power) you have - Israelmore Ayivor
date a girl who reads a book,that she can write her own fairytale having you as her hero in love and progress . - litymunshi
There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest. - Bertrand Russell
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. - Hunter S. Thompson
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. - Harry S Truman
PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress. - Ambrose Bierce
It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you. - Tony Benn
To progress isn’t a little step, it’s a pretty dramatic lifestyle change. - Auliq Ice
Change is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy. - Bertrand Russell
When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity. - Wayne W. Dyer
There is no greater peace than work and no greater happiness than progress. - Sharad Vivek Sagar
Until our education system is repositioned to take care of the tripartite nature of a human being - head, heart and hand, we cannot make healthy progress as a nation or individuals. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
As long as you believe that you can achieve and progress in it you will succeed - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us. - Robin S. Sharma
Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! - Mia Love
the progress of real purpose is crippled where lack of money is equated to lack of zeal - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Consistency is good, but progress is better. - Amit Kalantri
If the truth be known coronary artery disease is a toothless paper tiger that need never ever exist and if it does exist it need never ever progress. - Dr. Esselstyn
We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march? - John L. O'Sullivan
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. - Bill Gates
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
Shifting perspective(s) and being proactive are essential to your our life paths, progress and possibilities: "Just because a door appears closed it does not mean that it is locked - nor that it will not open with the right heart, call or touch - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Let's make progress, not excuses. - Justin Cotillard
Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion. - Ryan Lilly
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them. - Abraham Flexner
No matter the circumstances, I encourage you to go forward with faith and prayer, calling on the Lord. You may not receive any direct revelation. But you will discover, as the years pass, that there has been a subtle guiding of your footsteps in paths of progress and great purpose. - Gordon B. Hinckley
Circumvent negative situations, people or anything that will impede progress. These things are toxic to personal achievement; desired end-points are driven by positive attitude and persistence. - Eric Zaccone
It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies. - Theodor W. Adorno
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler
Our business is to be free of anything that separates us from God, who has created us to simply be happy and to progress. - Toni Sorenson
Society shall never make progress unless it changes its basic objective of making things easier;instead our main objective should be to make men stronger!I say "men" as women have always had and shall continue to have all the strength needed!!-(Woods oration-2008) - Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad
When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time. - Orison Swett Marden
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
Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. - Bertrand Russell
A secret to your progress will be a strong belief in your own abilities. People will try to hold you back. Some will even "try" to close doors but if you believe in your very own abilities, I promise you will do all that they didn't want for you and more. - Troy Gathers
There is a big difference between motion and action. Just because you get out of bed doesn't mean you are making progress. Taking action requires decisiveness, dedication, and clear direction. - Farshad Asl
Recognizing your own progress is a huge part of feeling motivated to do more. Your brain is a great tool for your success. It is hard at work and automating the new things you are doing even when you are taking a break. - Prince Akwarandu
It was possible that he was making some progress in his mental health condition by seeing me. - Holly Goldberg Sloan
It is the culture that makes the difference. When there is no internal transformation, there cannot be external progress and development whatsoever. - Sunday Adelaja
...if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that woman are inferior, you haven't made any progress. - Ariel Levy
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. - Charles Baudelaire
Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear. - Elizabeth Gilbert
In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured. - Virchand Gandhi
i know you will come back to me one day,the day I've built my kingdom, the day when all my dreams are changed.and it will be better that you go back to your home, i will be in progress and you will be just an expatriate. - Nabil TOUSSI
Move forward for forward is progress but circles are movement. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements. - William F. Buckley Jr.
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. - Plato
Your minds PERCEPTION of the past will change your future vision, and either prevent or propel forward progress in life. - Joe Goodrich
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Mahatma Gandhi
Until all processes are progressed, the world will not process meaningful, measurable progress.Progress the process, in order to process, progress. This shall be the responsibility of those who are for the light of universal innovation, as opposed to the benefactors of sectarian division. - Justin Kyle McFarlane Beau
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. - Robert Heinlein
Unless you are ambitious, you do not make progress. - Tony Blair
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress. - Richard Feynman
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. - Harold Wilson
If you keep people down so they dont become better than you, you gotta stay there to keep them down so you dont progress yourself.What kind of wahala (Suffering) is that ?Leave them to progress so you can expand. - Myles Munroe
Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive. - Mahatma Gandhi
if someone gets jealous from you,that the sign of your progress - jassi
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Roads to SUCCESS are always under construction. You are work in progress. Keep growing and keep living. - Adedayo Olabamiji
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. - Guy Debord
You are an unfinished work in progress. One of the good things about life's challenges: you get to find out that you're capable of being far more than you ever thought possible. - Karen Salmonsohn
Art can only progress towards its own self-annihilation. - Richard Appignanesi
An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.
In the courtroom of the conscience, a case is always in progress. - Dutch Proverb
When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there is no honour too great to pay to the memory of , one of the greatest scientific discoverers of all time. Ernest Rutherford - Faraday
We have to remember that progress isn’t just a straight line upwards, O.K.?It’s a weird roller coaster where sometimes you’re screaming for joy, and other times you’re barfing in your own face. - Colin Jost
...90 Times to be viewed a work which is state: Progress sounds like a lot of to me... but please don't lie and say that you what I to continu, don't ya??? - Deyth Banger
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. - Winston S. Churchill
The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world. - George Eliot
When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress. - G.K. Chesterton
The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics. - Jill Lepore
Progress belongs to the Askers; the smarter the question, the lesser the guessing. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
Let's make progress justice a process, not an afterthought - Simon S. Tam
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.' - William Ralph Inge
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. - W. E. B. Du Bois
All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. - George Bernard Shaw
Esoteric things progress not according to time, but by activity, they can be slow or quick, depending upon the efforts made. - Belsebuub
If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth. - Thomas à Kempis
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader. - Max DePree
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation. - Benjamin Disraeli
Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included). - Karl Marx
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. - Martin Luther King Jr.
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. - Frank Herbert
All creativity is a work in progress - Dean Cavanagh
Instead of trying to understand Life, we must live it. Create a reason to Live and progress on that path every day. - RVM
If any belief or societal dogma prevents peaceful societal change or progress, that society will inevitably be victims of miserable violent changes. - Debasish Mridha
Progress is hard, achievements are easy, and giving up is easier still. - Kevin Focke
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. - George Eliot
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind. - Mahatma Gandhi
There is no time for regrets. Regrets relate to the past. We have been there. We need to progress to the future. - Marilyn L. Rice
Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It's progress. - DaShanne Stokes
Aspire for progress, hunger for success, and strive for greatness. - Jon Weberg
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw
Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. - Plato
A day of rest yields a hundred days of progress. - A.D. Posey
Stop comparing yourself to others. Compare yourself to your perfect self version and start develop and progress step by step to get closer to your perfect version. - Mahmoud Own
The only successful philosophies and religions are the ones that flatter us, whether in the name of progress or of hell. Damned or not, man experiences an absolute need to be at the heart of everything. - Emil Cioran
A small step toward recovery is giant progress. - Mark Cortes
Conformity is the biggest enemy of progress. Break those limiting social rules. - Debasish Mridha
Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. - L. Ron Hubbard
Progress isn't about how fast or how far you are moving, it's about the direction your heart and body is pointed. Keep those aimed at your truest north and you'll get to where you want to be. - Toni Sorenson
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. - John F. Kennedy
The most important condition for progress is freedom of the mind. - Debasish Mridha
If you conform, you miss all of the adventures and stand against the progress of society. - Debasish Mridha
All progress of humanity happened because humans wanted to be loved and appreciated. - Debasish Mridha
Progress means to be true to the world, If we need to make a change. - Auliq Ice
'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. - Bertrand Russell
May the hopes of your heart and dreams of your eyes keep turning into realities. To all women out there: The more you progress, the more humanity progresses. - Sharad Vivek Sagar
Of course, things will go wrong. Move on! Don’t let the little snags affect the progress of your life. - RVM
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job. - Victor Hugo
Women’s status in society has become the standard by which humanity’s progress toward civility and peace can be measured.-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images - Mahnaz Afkhami
The mind's direction is more important than its progress. - Joseph Joubert
MALEFACTOR, n. The chief factor in the progress of the human race. - Ambrose Bierce
Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long. - Ogden Nash
Don`t turn around in circles for making circles do not equate making progress. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer. - Humphry Davy
Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words ‘impossible’ and ‘improbable’ are synonyms. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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. - Dag Hammarskjöld
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. - Frank Zappa
If there is progress anywhere it is because there has been people who worked for it not just prayed for it. - Sunday Adelaja
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. - Larry Page
Every success and every bit of progress, is a building block for your next step. - Auliq Ice
A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress. - Bryant McGill
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 test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.
Hate is never an option for a truth seeker. It binds, stifles, constipates and causes the gears of philosophical progress to come to a grinding halt. From Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather - an ebook - Robert Gately
The true work of the martial arts is progress, not perfection - Gene Dunn
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."[Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962] - John F. Kennedy
Tell the truth about any situation & you are delivered from lack of progress, but become hypocritical or lying, and you may be in bondage for life. - Auliq-Ice
As I am a work in progress, you shall see me more or less? Don't shake me out if I digress. As of me less, from me more of my work, I guess. - Ana Claudia Antunes
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. - Frederick Douglass
DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment. - Ambrose Bierce
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies. - Robert F. Kennedy
When all your efforts are channeled through a common canal for progress, no condition can alter a single sentence of your success story! Dream it; Drive it; Be in focus! - Israelmore Ayivor
Progress is the only road going there. - T Jay Taylor
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals. - Jim Rohn
Initiative + Progress = Success. - Miena Fiagome
A heroine makes progress against an enemy who would manipulate her thoughts when she begins to probe his and see weakness. - Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. - Ogden Nash
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. - Albert Einstein
War is progress, peace is stagnation - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Proper process, should not hinder progress. Too much focus on process, has left many blind to measured, tangible progress. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
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. - Theodore Roosevelt
Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation. - Eugene V. Debs
I think it's not particularly necessary to lead a religious life. People progress just as well in music, or art, or math or science or gardening or whatever. It all seems to work as well and the process is good. - Jim Henson
Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education. - John F. Kennedy
Americans have a tendency to take much of our long-term economic, technological, medical, and social progress for granted, while assuming problems will only get worse. This is unwarranted. - Rachel DiCarlo Currie
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. - H. L. Mencken
Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long. - Ogden Nash
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
Be wary of the praise of men; don't let it pump you up unnecessarily and don't let it paralyze your progress - Bernard Kelvin Clive
A man would rather break his donkeys back than give it the carrot it requires to progress. - R.P. Falconer
Without haters, you can't see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil. - Michael Bassey Johnson
In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress. - Charles W. Eliot
I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. - Petronius Arbiter
Progress, You can see how well you are doing on achieving your goals, after you start something. - Auliq Ice
Expect progress, not perfection. - John F. MacArthur Jr.
Man is better off without the confusion and fear of psychic experience and his progress will be faster.' If telepathy ever becomes a possibility he was not sure it would be a good thing, '...for it may put us back in contact with the spirits of the dead and progress does not lie in that direction. - H.R. Wakefield
The human has genetic adaptation to natural electromagnetic radiation. Increasing, reducing or removing the natural radiation exposures results in a sickened human that may progress onto a diseased state. - Steven Magee
Progress and motion are not synonymous. - Tim Fargo
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. - Ayn Rand
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. - Aldous Huxley
Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease. - Amy Lowell
Without risks my friends there is no progress, no advancement either in science or technology. - Sunday Adelaja
Don't say, "the sky is my limit", say, "I progress ad infinitum. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Progress stops when you are satisfied with yourself. - Sumitkumar Dhule
One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.
For life, it doesn’t matter how much you earn and how you hold your different relationships, but what’s important for life is, what kind of progress, you have achieved from inside, while going through different aspects of life. - Roshan Sharma
Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens. - Jason Whitlock
One of the sadder lessons of history is that progress is reversible. - Marty Rubin
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind. - Thomas Jefferson
All progress begins with a decision. Effective leadership requires decisive action. Embrace the process of deciding, yet recognize when you have reached a choice point. - Angie Morgan
Should-haves are the devil’s greatest tool against our personal progress. He shouts in our ears that they are failures, while God calmly whispers they are lessons. - Richelle E. Goodrich
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. - Norman Vincent Peale
Happiness is in all of us and it comes from progress. The root cause of a multiplier effect or a destroyer effect lies inside of us. The multiplication of the happiness in us on a daily basis makes us unique and powerful and gives us the reason for our existence." --. - Bimal Shah
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