Progress Quotes

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Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events. — E. W. Howe
Progress is a set of assumptions. — Edward Albee
Nothing recedes like progress. — E E Cummings
Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. — Elizabeth Blackwell
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for… — George Santayana
There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of… — Henry Ford
Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes. — Henry George
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress. — Henry Ward Beecher
Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day.… — Horace Mann
I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record. — Ice T
Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every… — August Strindberg
New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow,… — J D Hayworth
We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move. — Jack Kerouac
At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country. — James Monroe
Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly. — James Young
The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type… — Jane Addams
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still. — John Maynard Keynes
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development. — Kofi Annan
Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress. — Lisa Randall

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