Growth Quote by G.K. Chesterton

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.

— Lewis Mumford

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard… let us not pretend to…

— E. O. Wilson

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in…

— Samuel Smiles

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

— George Zebrowski

Progress? There's no such thing as progress. There's only change. You dig a hole in the ground, you build up a city, and you…

— Charles Manson

“something unspoiled by the softening influence of progress—”

— Matthew FitzSimmons

“Progress can today be defined as man's ability to complicate simplicity.”

— Thor Heyerdahl

“~A little progress is better than no progress~”

— Angela Algiere

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into…

— Alex Campbell

“To understand the nature of the Revolution we must call it "progress"; and we may define progress by the word "tomorrow".”

— victor hugo