Progress Quotes

"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be"

"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

"The best road to progress is freedom's road"

John F. Kennedy, President

"My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future"

John Hutton, Educator

"There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect"

Ronald Reagan, President

"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 Hammarskjold, Diplomat

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

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced"

Victor Hugo, Author

"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"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"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

"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., Minister

"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

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

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

"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, Writer

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"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, Poet

"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress"

George Henry Lewes, Philosopher

"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"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, Novelist

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

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"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, President

"The progress in Iraq has not been without cost"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

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

Barack Obama, President

"Make measurable progress in reasonable time"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way"

Barack Obama, President

"And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it"

Barack Obama, President

"America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings"

Barack Obama, President

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

Samuel Johnson, Author

"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

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

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

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