Progress Quotes

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.

Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.

And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.

I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.

No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best.

The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems.

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

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

Life is a work in progress.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

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.

The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision.

We're all works of art in progress.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

All progress means war with society.

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.

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.

Where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress

It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth.

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

They did not want anything to do with me in Paris and they were right: they have gone much further than I, but I will work and I too will progress.

Human nature is a work in progress.

We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.