Progress Quotes

"Without deviation progress is not possible"

"The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights"

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"Progress is the attraction that moves humanity"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

"In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence"

Henry Van Dyke, Poet

"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

"Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness"

Charles Darwin, Scientist

"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals"

Madame de Stael, Writer

"Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened"

Madame de Stael, Writer

"The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

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

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

"The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Writer

"It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness"

Bruce Barton, Author

"If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice"

Michael Zaslow, Actor

"Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies"

William Howard Taft, President

"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason"

James Madison, President

"The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress"

Helene Deutsch, Psychologist

"Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring"

Henry Miller, 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

"Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke"

Alan Dundes, Educator

"However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted"

Hideki Tojo, Soldier

"A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"Problems are the price you pay for progress"

Branch Rickey, Athlete

"Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better"

Harry S. Truman, President

"People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't"

Alice Walker, Author

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