Progress Quotes · Page 42

People want progress, but they don't want change.

— Eva Burrows

“Progress comes via the improbable. Embrace it.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

Every country needs a strong leader in order to progress.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

— H. L. Mencken

Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.

— James Bryant Conant

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

— George Bernard Shaw

Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

— Talcott Parsons

“Woe to him who becomes useless to human progress!”

— Ernest Renan

Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan…

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Environmental challenges have the power to deny equality of opportunity and hold back the progress of communities.

— Lisa P. Jackson

The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence…

— James Mark Baldwin

I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.

— Hillary Clinton

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least…

— Alexander Hamilton

A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress…

— Confucius

World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.

— Stephen Jay Gould

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you…

— Carl Andre

Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a…

— Rudolf Christoph Eucken

It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power…

— Ilona Andrews

Man is evolving...but it's difficult to see his progress with a Western perception of time. The Hindus think of time in much…

— David Lynch

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we…

— Joyce Meyer

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly…

— Koichi Tanaka

We didn't make much progress on the country's agenda. And in my view it's because the Senate basically hadn't done much of…

— Mitch McConnell

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause…

— Irving Babbitt

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this…

— Charles Darwin

Law is justice. And it is under the law of justice - under the reign of right; under the influence of liberty,…

— Frederic Bastiat

“My own general thesis was somewhat to this effect: that Artists have worried the world by being wantonly, needlessly, and gratuitously progressive.…

— G.K. Chesterton

It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes…

— Swami Vivekananda

Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a…

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

I sat there for several moments, trying to decide how best I should respond. None of the advice I'd gotten from the…

— Richelle Mead

“Are [the arts and the sciences] really as distinct as we seem to assume? [...] Most universities will have distinct faculties of…

— Stephen Mumford

Each one of us will travel a different road during this life. Each progresses at a different rate. Temptations that trouble your…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation…

— Ludwig von Mises

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.

— Len Deighton

Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.

— Norman Cousins

Knowledge humanely applied makes human progress possible.

— Frank H. T. Rhodes

I am a work in progress dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding.

— Ani DiFranco

Progress is more important than perfection.

— Simon Sinek

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

— Ernest Lawrence

When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem.”

— R.F. Georgy