Progress Quotes

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

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

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.

If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that's enough. And, if tomorrow you are a little bit better than you were today, then that's enough.

You’ll never progress if you never try

There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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.

Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

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

Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.

When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Progress is impossible without the ability to admit mistakes.

Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.

When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.

I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

A thought is an idea in transit.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?

Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

Change is inevitable. Progress is optional .