Progress Quotes

3066 quotes by 1980 authors

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from. — Eric Hoffer
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last. — Oscar Wilde
By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea,… — Booker T. Washington
Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America.… — Stewart Udall
I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and… — Leonard Bernstein
Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they have found ways… — James Fallows
You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off. — Robert Breault
Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I… — Herbert M. Shelton
Whenever God begins something, we have the assurance that He will finish it. Nothing will stand in the way of Him accomplishing His purpose in… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very… — Shunryu Suzuki
I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability… — Li Peng
Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid! — Joyce Meyer
All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were… — Havelock Ellis
Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is… — Aldous Huxley
Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop. — Robert Musil
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to… — William Ralph Inge
We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are. — Kurt Vonnegut
In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as… — William Butler Yeats

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