Progress Quotes


Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato Progress 293
All progress occurs because people dare to be different. Harry Millner Progress 202
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. Ralph Waldo Emerson Progress 191
The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant. Orison S. Marden Progress 190
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. Abraham Lincoln Progress 173
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. Susan B. Anthony Progress 163
The price of progress is trouble. Charles F. Kettering Progress 156
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We might as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. Edmund Burke Progress 152
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. Mahatma Gandhi Progress 130
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. George Bernard Shaw Progress 125
Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still. Chinese Proverbs Progress 118
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. Martin Luther King, Jr.Progress 110
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. Ogden Nash Progress 108
We should so live and labor in our time that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and that which came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. That is what we mean by progress. Henry Ward Beecher Progress 106
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. Jiddu Krishnamurti Progress 106
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last. Oscar Wilde Progress 105
We have laboured long to build a heaven only to find it populated with horrors. Alan Moore Progress 104
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. William McKinley Progress 102
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. Margaret Fuller Progress 100
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. Thomas A. Edison Progress 99
When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before. Henry David Thoreau Progress 98
The walking of Man is falling forwards. Ralph Waldo Emerson Progress 94
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. Nadine Gordimer Progress 92
One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward. Robert M. Pirsig Progress 91
Progress is not created by contented people. Frank Tyger Progress 91
Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving. Harold Mayfield Progress 91
Progress, this great heresy of decay. Charles Baudelaire Progress 90
It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years. H. Ross Perot Progress 88
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. William Simms Progress 87
The day science begins to study nonphysical phenomena it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. Nikola Tesla Progress 86
When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward. Swedish Proverbs Progress 86
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. Adlai Stevenson Progress 86
Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it. Proverbs Progress 82
The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit. David Lee Roth Progress 81
No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things. Epictetus Progress 80
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. Thomas Alva Edison Progress 80
There will come a time when it isnt Theyre spying on me through my phone anymore. Eventually it will be My phone is spying on me. Philip K. Dick Progress 80
My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. We have demonstrated, even in our diversity, the progress of Nigeria remains paramount for all. Author Progress 79
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen. Eden Phillpotts Progress 79
The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. Ernest Renan Progress 79
The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word. Joseph R. Sizoo Progress 79
Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing. Source Unknown Progress 78
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. Gaston Bachelard Progress 77
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century. Lewis Mumford Progress 77
Acorns were good until bread was found. Francis Bacon Progress 77
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. John Dewey Progress 77
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage. Herbert Hoover Progress 76
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself. William Ellery Channing Progress 76
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself. Andrew Carnegie Progress 76
The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur. Alfred North Whitehead Progress 76

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