Progress Quotes

3066 quotes by 1980 authors

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress — Nora Roberts
Progress means nothing to presence. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives. — Paul Feyerabend
A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions.… — Oscar Wilde
I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what… — Charles Darwin
The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress. — Peter Matthiessen
But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Don't drive drunk. Ever. Don't shag anyone you don't like, or who doesn't like you. Get a look at how people live in a place… — Christopher Moore
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be… — Edward de Bono
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we cannot expect things… — Rachel Carson
Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and… — Steven Pressfield
Tiny gold sparks flared in his irises. "You're in my rooms in my bathtub naked and you're still mouthing off." Did he expect anything different?… — Ilona Andrews
This is the first adventure Iâ€™ve survived without being kidnapped, attacked, knocked unconscious or possessed by evil spirits. A ripped blouse? Ruined skirt? Bad hair?… — Kelley Armstrong
Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty… — Helen Keller
Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says,… — Jerome Lawrence
I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning… — Isadora Duncan
[Omin] ...All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise - some must be… — Brandon Sanderson
Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of… — Victor Hugo
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less. — Victor Hugo

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