Progress Quotes

"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

"The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress"

Ernest Renan, Philosopher

"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

"And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization"

Chauncey Wright, Philosopher

"The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress"

Charles Erwin Wilson, Businessman

"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

"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error"

Voltaire, Writer

"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

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

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

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

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"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

"Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"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

"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

"Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"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"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

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

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

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

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

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

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"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

"People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"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

"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

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

John F. Kennedy, President

"I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive"

C. S. Lewis, Author

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

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

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