Progress Quotes

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I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment.… — Ernest Lawrence
The price of progress is trouble. — Charles Kettering
No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things. — Epictetus
The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now… — William Feather
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science,… — Blaise Pascal
Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming. — Robert Gordon Sproul
Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience. — Elbert Hubbard
Progress is the mother of problems. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma. — Benjamin De Casseres
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress. — Seneca the Younger
If human progress had been merely a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia today. — Thomas Reed
You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces. — Henry J. Kaiser
Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down… — Robert W. Service
All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy… — Herbert Hoover
The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress. — Louis Kronenberger
Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys with… — Dan Jenkins
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And… — Theodor Adorno
The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found… — Alexis de Tocqueville
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures — Samuel Johnson
Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress — Wilferd Peterson

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