Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Progress

Progress

All movement is not progress, just as all motion is not forward.--Anonymous
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.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.--Adlai E. Stevenson
All progress occurs because people dare to be different.--Harry Millner
All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.--Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind)
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.--Alfred North Whitehead
The best road to progress is freedom's road.--John F. Kennedy (Message to Congress 3/14/61)
Change is not always progress.... A fever of newness had been everywhere confused with the spirit of progress.--Henry Ford (in Democracy and its Discontents by Boorstin)
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.--Cyril Parkinson
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.--Henry Ford
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress.--Bertrand Russell
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.--Oscar Wilde
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.--Winston S. Churchill
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.--George Bernard Shaw
The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.--Bertrand Russell (the Practice and Theory of Bolshevism)
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.--Niels Bohr (in The Quantum Dice by Ponomarev)
Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and persistent work of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation.--Martin Luther King, Jr. ("Letter from Birmingham City Jail," April 16, 1963)
I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.--David Livingstone
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.--Margaret Fuller
I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.--Henry J. Kaiser
I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.--Leslie Caron
I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.--Marie Curie
If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.--Barbara Ward (The Unity of the Free World)
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.--Calvin Coolidge
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.--Frederick Douglass
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.--Epictetus
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.--Orville Wright
In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.--Clare Booth Luce
Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.--Aldous Huxley ("The Double Crisis" Themes and Variations)
It is not strange ... to mistake change for progress.--Millard Fillmore
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.--Thomas Jefferson (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.--Anonymous
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.--Robert E. Kahn
Not all speed is movement.--Toni Cade Bambera
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.--Adam Smith (Powers of Mind)
Once a new technology rolls over you, if your're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.--Stewart Brand
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.--Michael Cibenko
The past is a guide post, not a hitching post.--L. Thomas Holdcroft
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
Problems are the price you pay for progress.--Branch Rickey
Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your feet on first.--Frederick Wilcox
Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some people who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.--Russell W. Davenport
Progress is not created by contented people.--Frank Tyger
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.--Robert A. Heinlein
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.--Kahlil Gibran
Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.--C. S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.--Ogden Nash
The progress, order, security, and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.--Pope John XXIII ("Pacem in terris" Encyclical)
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.--Elbert Hubbard
The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.--Thomas Brackett Reed
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.--George Bernard Shaw
Restlessness is discontent--and discontent is the first necessities of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.--Thomas A. Edison
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.--Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Second Inaugural Address, January 20, 1937)
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.--Henry George (Progress and Poverty)
There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.--Charles J. C. Lyall
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.--B. K. S. Iyengar (Light on Life)
Things that don't get better get worse.--Ellen Sue Stern (The Indispensable Woman)
This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.--Frances E. Willard (A Wheel Within a Wheel)
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual check.--Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the rights of Women)
Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.--Thomas F. Woodlock
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.--St. Francis de Sales
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.--James Freeman Clarke
We trained hard--but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing. And what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralizaton.--Gaius Petronius Arbiter
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring...--Henry Miller ("Reflections on Writing" The Wisdom of the Heart)
Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.--Joan Aiken
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.--Nathaniel Hawthorne
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.--Charles F. Kettering