Progress Quotes

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals… — Donny Osmond
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain,… — Thomas Paine
In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on… — Gwyneth Paltrow
You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of… — Shimon Peres
A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day… — Lester B. Pearson
The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress. — James Cash Penney
But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for… — Frances Perkins
Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be… — Rick Perry
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. — Laurence J. Peter
I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave… — Tom Peters
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it… — Pablo Picasso
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which… — Albert Pike
I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress… — Steven Pinker
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. — Alexander Pope
Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area.… — Colin Powell
The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if… — Terry Pratchett
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can… — Marcel Proust
Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court,… — Ludwig Quidde
New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of… — Anna Quindlen
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the… — Ayn Rand

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