Progress Quotes

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I think expectations of 'Doctor Who' should always be high, because it's a show that must always progress and get better and better. — Matt Smith
The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes… — Thomas Sowell
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. — Herbert Spencer
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts. — Baruch Spinoza
Delay is the enemy of progress. — Eliot Spitzer
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. — Madame de Stael
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened. — Madame de Stael
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. — Gertrude Stein
All things can be forgiven if we can progress. — Cat Stevens
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. — Adlai E. Stevenson
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes.… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies. — William Howard Taft
The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for… — Yves Tanguy
It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more… — James Taylor
Things do not change; we change. — Henry David Thoreau
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. — Hunter S. Thompson
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. — Henry David Thoreau
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long. — James Thurber

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