Progress Quotes

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

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

If you take an hour out of your day to meditate, you will progress ten-fold. By staying mentally focused, you can let your worries go.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.

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

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

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

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

We are making progress militarily, there is no doubt about that. You've seen the reports from Misrata, although reports of the Gaddafi forces completely pulling out of Misrata seem to be exaggerated.

Van Halen is a work in progress.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.

So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

I like progress but I hate change.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.

People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

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

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.

I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

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

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

There is simply no way our nation can progress if its women population is left behind.

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.

The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.

Well, as you've said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it's an aspiration that is natural and that, I welcome.

Well, the important message that we've always carried to China is that we look forward to your progress and prosperity, we look forward to you playing a role in the progress and prosperity of this region and we look forward to stability in your relations with others.

You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us.

I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

You either get better, or you don't progress.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.