Progress Quotes

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it. — Susan Rice
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress. — Charles Fourier
It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They… — Henry Ford
Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your… — Og Mandino
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of… — Richard Cobden
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable… — George Bernard Shaw
Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress. — Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Without free speech no search for truth is possible; without free speech progress is checked and the nations no longer march forward toward the nobler… — Charles Bradlaugh
Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on… — Wynton Marsalis
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy… — Larry Page
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to… — Samuel Johnson
Man's life is a progress, not a station. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. — Russell Baker
As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes all things new.… — James Freeman Clarke
The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the… — Robert Southey
What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The difference may be… — Rajneesh
Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also. — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

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