Progress Quotes

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Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. — Frank Zappa
We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for… — Dean Koontz
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without… — Frederick Douglass
Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress — Steve Grand
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of… — Tom Stoppard
She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress? — Ann Brashares
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history. — Henry James
We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through… — Oscar Wilde
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting… — George Bernard Shaw
The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the… — Oscar Wilde
Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. — L. Ron Hubbard
I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of… — Hunter S. Thompson
Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel… — Curtis Sittenfeld
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know… — Winston Churchill
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. — Oscar Wilde
We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it… — Richard Bach

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