Progress Quotes

It was the only way to progress, to stop.

— Samuel Beckett

Scientific Progress goes boink?

— Anonymous

Progress is often just a good idea away.

— John C. Maxwell

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

— Charles Baudelaire

Progress means nothing to presence.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Progress not perfection.

— Court McGee

Doing nothing gets you nothing.

— Sean Reichle

I'm a work in progress.

— Barbra Streisand

Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress,

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Marie Curie

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

— Emile M. Cioran

In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily diguised as Chaos.”

— Joyce Grenfell

Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.

— Ban Ki-moon

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

— George Bernard Shaw

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them…

— Walter Lippmann

Some people want to make it happen, some wish it would happen, but others will make it happen.

— Anonymous

The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down…

— William Shakespeare

When you leave a club like Liverpool, you have to go somewhere you'll feel comfortable and progress as a player. To come…

— Charlie Adam

Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a…

— Jay Inslee

Everyone's careers go at different paces; you need to forget what other people are doing and concentrate on your own progress.

— Hugh Dennis

“If you promote peace and progress for others, I don’t think you will have sleepless nights.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one…

— George Sand

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for…

— Harold Washington

We're making progress. Our military is assisting in Iraq. And we're hoping that within the year we'll be able to push ISIS…

— Hillary Clinton

Mass application of technological innovations, which constitutes much of the distinctive substance of modern economic growth, is closely connected with the further…

— Simon Kuznets

Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines…

— Anatole France

Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been…

— Irving Langmuir

I never travel across this great nation without experiencing a feeling of gratitude and thanksgiving for all that we have and are.…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is…

— Roland Barthes

In a way, and I don't like to use this word, but delusion can be a good thing, it can be a…

— Anthony Yarde

To have a free, peaceful and prosperous world we must be ever stronger particularly in the spiritual things…It is American belief in…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day…

— Naomi Novik

Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so…

— Evgeny Morozov

Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and…

— Marianne Williamson

In pursuing personal growth, there are issues where we can advance just so far by ourselves. At some point, our continued progress…

— Marianne Williamson

The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress. Every second of every minute of every hour, the…

— Matthew Syed

“...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women…

— Karl Marx

Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it…

— James Hutton