Progress Quotes

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

"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

"Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing"

George Orwell, Author

"We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress"

George Eliot, Author

"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

"I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress"

Thomas Mann, Writer

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

Samuel Butler, Poet

"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"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 Edison, Inventor

"Discontent is the first necessity of progress"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism"

Earl Warren, Judge

"Make measurable progress in reasonable time"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

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

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"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

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

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"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

"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

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

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

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"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

"Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"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

"Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future"

Frank Herbert, Writer

"Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress"

Ellen Terry, Actress

"Progress was all right. Only it went on too long"

James Thurber, Comedian

"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

"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

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

Barack Obama, President

"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

"Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage"

Herbert Hoover, President

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

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