Progress Quotes: Inspiring Words for Growth and Change

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

"Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

"In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

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

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

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

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed"

Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist

"Pursue progress, not perfection"

Ben Smith, Athlete

"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together"

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President

"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction"

George Orwell, Author

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

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

"Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"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, Writer

"Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible"

Alan Dundes, Educator

"Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"The direction of the mind is more important than its progress"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

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

Harold Wilson, Statesman

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

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt"

Bill Shuster, Politician

"You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us"

Sellapan Ramanathan, Statesman

"Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy with everything that happened with the parliamentary elections, and it was not exactly a perfect presidential election in Egypt"

Roger Wicker, Politician

"If anything's progressive, then we make progress"

Michael Giles, Musician

"You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces"

Henry J. Kaiser, Businessman

"Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico to help curb the problem from the south"

Greg Walden, Politician