Progress Quotes

3066 quotes by 1893 authors

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction. — Arthur Bloch
The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe. — Stephen Hawking
Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside the range of… — Hannah Arendt
Men love newfangleness. — Geoffrey Chaucer
I'm a work in progress. — Barbra Streisand
History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are… — Mao Zedong
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be… — Adam Clarke
Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the… — Claude Levi-Strauss
Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress. — Gelett Burgess
The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why… — Octavio Paz
Obviously, computers have made differences. They have fostered the development of spaceships- as well as a great increase in junk mail. — Tracy Kidder
Change is inevitable; but progress depends on what we do with that change. — Charles Wheelan
The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the development of civilization,… — J. William Fulbright
As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in… — Richard Leakey
My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change the… — Anwar Sadat
Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state. — Nursultan Nazarbayev
Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated… — Paul Nurse
I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and… — Carre Otis
In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a… — Martin O'Malley
I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment. — Ernest Lawrence

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