Progress Quotes

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For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action,… — Ralph Ellison
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress. — Richard P. Feynman
My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which… — Robert E. Lee
You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full pursuit of pleasure.… — Richard G. Scott
It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward. — Louis Sachar
In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. — Booker T. Washington
Leave to your opinions their own quiet undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be pressed or hurried by… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato. — Grant Morrison
The best and most clear indicator that we are progressing spiritually and coming unto Christ is the way we treat other people. — Marvin J. Ashton
If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates… — James Allen
There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal… — James Allen
Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person.… — Epictetus
Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities.… — H. P. Blavatsky
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. — Robert A. Heinlein
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress... — John Muir
No matter how old we become, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We can grow and… — Gordon B. Hinckley
To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too… — Francis Bacon

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