Progress Quotes

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

And our big theme has been, you have made so much progress, we urge you on with the openings and market openings that have occurred. They clearly work and continuing on that path will produce further growth and further opportunities for the Indian people.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate.

Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

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.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

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.

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.

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

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

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

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.

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.