Progress Quotes

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

The Democratic Party is on the move across the country. Voters are responding to our message of progress and fiscal responsibility.

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life.

In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.