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Progress Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.
- An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
- If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms,…
- Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
- The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.
- All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has…
- The walking of Man is falling forwards.
- And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
- Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Man's life is a progress, not a station.
- Life is a progress, and not a station.
- All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has…
More Progress Quotes
- It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the… — Teresa of Avila
- Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde
- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that… — Mark Twain
- The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered… — L. Harrison Matthews
- Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race. — L. Ron Hubbard
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction, talents enough… — Eric Milner-White
- Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits… — John F. Kennedy