Progress Quotes · Page 52

“Progress comes via the improbable. Embrace it.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

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

— Eva Burrows

How can the world progress if women don't consider men ... the Man ... first?

— Arlene Dahl

“As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

— Talcott Parsons

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— James Bryant Conant

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

— H. L. Mencken

Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.

— Isabella Beeton

All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority.

— Margaret Benson

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

— Sydney Brenner

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

— Buffalo Bill

I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the…

— Anthony Bourdain

When we clear out other peoples expectations we are supposed to want, we make room to take baby steps toward our true…

— JOHNREYES

Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

— Leo Tolstoy

Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch…

— Herbert Hoover

I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that…

— Ani DiFranco

These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a bipartisan spirit and with…

— Susan Collins

If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in…

— Louis J. Halle

Truthfulness is the foundation of all virtues of the world of humanity. Without truthfulness, progress and success in all the worlds of…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Benchmarks, yes, we want the Iraqi government to do the things that will show progress. But to say, American troops are going…

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

To one who loves his country in all its parts, it is natural to rejoice in whatever contributes to the prosperity and…

— Jefferson Davis

A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is…

— Richard Posner

“That’s progress,” McIlveen said. “What we think of as progress,” she countered. “To the Yautja, we’re barely crawling. Sometimes I think we’re…

— Tim Lebbon

“The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I…

— Richard P. Feynman

You can graduate a man's progress in religion by the amount of prayer, not by the number of hours perhaps, but by…

— Thomas De Witt Talmage

It is only when man cultivate humanness that society will shine with radiance and the nation and the world will progress. Humanness…

— Sathya Sai Baba

We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at…

— Heinrich Burkhardt

Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live not "happily" but less unhappily in this world,…

— H. P. Blavatsky

“We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as of something going…

— Anonymous

It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise,…

— Anais Nin

Every country needs a strong leader in order to progress.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You don’t need perfection to win. You just need progress from yesterday.”

— Marion Bekoe

I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.

— Barbra Streisand

The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give.

— Mary McLeod Bethune

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

— David Rockefeller

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

— John Stuart Mill

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

— Christopher Hitchens