Progress Quotes

"We do more talking progress than we do progressing"

"All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions."

"What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics."

"Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it rallies the stragglers, its stopping places when it meditates, contemplating some new and splendid promised land that has suddenly appeared on its horizon. It has its nights of slumber; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker to see the human spirit lost in shadow, and to grope in the darkness without being able to awake sleeping progress."

"Progress is the stride of God."

"Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last."

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

"When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before."

"Getting the video sources into the PC has been a limiting factor. We're making progress making the video content easily accessible on the PC."

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

"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual."

"The walking of Man is falling forwards."

"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development."

"Without a struggle, there can be no progress."

"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."

"We shall make the most lasting progress if we recognize that Social Security can furnish only a base upon which each one of our citizens may build his individual security through his own individual efforts."

"Nothing recedes like progress."

"The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

"All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."