Quotes on Progress

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Author: Henry Adams

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

Author: Kate Adie

One can not impede scientific progress.

Author: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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

Author: Joe Andrew

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Author: Susan Anthony

First, we have to lower our costs to levels that are more competitive. This will prevent the lower-cost airlines from pushing us out of the markets we want to serve. We've made great progress on this front, but we need to keep pushing.

Author: Gerard Arpey

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Author: Gaston Bachelard

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Author: Russell Baker

Being different is not a crime, it's a virtue that sets you apart in a world of conformity.

Author: Michelle Obama

The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

Author: James Baldwin

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.

Author: Robert Barany

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

Author: John Bardeen

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

Author: Bruce Barton

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

Author: William Bartram

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

Author: Bruno Bauer

Do not fear mistakes, for without them, you will never learn and grow.

Author: Sonia Sotomayor

I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.

Author: James Black

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

Author: Harold Bloom

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.

Author: Michael Bloomberg

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

Author: Lionel Blue

While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.

Author: Earl Blumenauer

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

Author: Earl Blumenauer

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

Author: Niels Bohr

As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making.

Author: Kit Bond

The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap.

Author: Kjell Bondevik

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago.

Author: Norman Borlaug

One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.

Author: Stuart Bowen

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

Author: James Breasted

True strength is not found in turning away from challenges, but in facing them head on with courage and determination.

Author: Michelle Obama

Success is not in the destination, but in the journey taken to get there.

Author: Maya Angelou

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

Author: H. Brown

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'.

Author: Sam Brownback

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

Author: Craig Bruce

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

Author: Isambard Brunel

Life is a journey, not a race. It's important to focus on the path ahead, rather than being consumed by competition.

Author: Maya Angelou

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.

Author: Luther Burbank

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Author: Nicholas Butler

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Author: Samuel Butler

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

Author: Richard Byrd

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.

Author: Kim Campbell

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Author: Albert Camus

I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.

Author: Leslie Caron

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

Author: Edgar Cayce

All progress is experimental.

Author: John Chapman

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

Author: Cesar Chavez

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Author: Shirley Chisholm

There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state.

Author: Anatoly Chubais

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

Author: Emile Cioran

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

Author: John Clapham

We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress.

Author: Jim Clyburn

I was heartened to hear the President say that as we make progress on the ground, and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels.

Author: Howard Coble

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Author: Frank Colby

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Author: James Conant

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Author: Calvin Coolidge

Success isn't just about the destination, but the journey of staying true to yourself along the way.

Author: Michelle Obama

Nothing recedes like progress.

Author: e. cummings

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Author: Marie Curie

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

Author: Artur Davis

Success is not about the destination, but the journey of self-discovery and growth that leads you there.

Author: Michelle Obama

The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.

Author: Bruce Dern

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

Challenge the status quo, for that's where true innovation lies.

Author: Ada Lovelace

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Author: Frederick Douglass

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

Author: Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Author: Frederick Douglass

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

Author: Alan Dundes

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.

Author: Helen Dunmore

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

Author: Henry Dyke

Dare to challenge the status quo, for in disruption lies innovation.

Author: Mary Smith

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

Author: Thomas Edison

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Author: Thomas Edison

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Author: Albert Einstein

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

Author: George Eliot

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

Author: T. Eliot

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

Author: Havelock Ellis

Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.

Author: Recep Erdogan

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

Author: Paul Feyerabend

In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.

Author: Ruth First

Success is not about reaching the peak of a mountain, but about embracing the beauty of the journey along the way.

Author: Maria Mitchell

Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.

Author: Malcolm Fraser

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

Author: Marilyn French

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

Author: Sigmund Freud

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

Author: Marcus Garvey

On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.

Author: Jim Gerlach

Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress made in the Delaware Estuary but in estuaries throughout the country.

Author: Jim Gerlach

It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.

Author: Robert Gibbs

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

Author: Khalil Gibran

If anything's progressive, then we make progress.

Author: Michael Giles

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

Author: Arnold Glasgow

The progress in Iraq has not been without cost.

Author: Virgil Goode

I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits.

Author: Jennifer Granholm

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

Author: Robert Graves

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Author: Joyce Grenfell

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Author: Franz Grillparzer

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Author: Franz Grillparzer

Success is not defined by the title you hold, but by the impact you make.

Author: Michelle Obama

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.

Author: Alexander Hamilton

The only limitations that exist are the ones we place upon ourselves. Break free and soar beyond what you thought was possible.

Author: Michelle Obama

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

Author: Sydney Harris

One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

Author: Phil Hartman

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.

Author: Friedrich Hayek

Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.

Author: Thierry Henry

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.

Author: Victor Hess

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.

Author: Victor Hess

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Author: Thor Heyerdahl

I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter.

Author: Patricia Highsmith

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Author: J. Holland

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

Author: Erich Honecker

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

Author: Herbert Hoover

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

Author: Herbert Hoover

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Author: Herbert Hoover

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.

Author: Victor Hugo

My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.

Author: John Hutton

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

Author: Aldous Huxley

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.

Author: Jay Inslee

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.

Author: Roman Jakobson

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

Author: Valerie Jarrett

In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations.

Author: Louis Johnson

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

Author: Howard Jones

We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress.

Author: Jerry Jones

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

Author: Joseph Joubert

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

Author: Joseph Joubert

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.

Author: Carl Jung

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

Author: Franz Kafka

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

Author: Henry Kaiser

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

Author: Leon Kass

Success is not defined by the destination, but by the journey of overcoming obstacles and embracing growth along the way.

Author: Michelle Obama

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

Author: Frank Kellogg

While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans.

Author: Sue Kelly

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Author: John Kennedy

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

Author: Patrick Kennedy

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

Author: Charles Kettering

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

Author: John Keynes

They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive.

Author: Jack Kilby

In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq.

Author: Peter King

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

Author: William King

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.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

Success is not about reaching the destination, but about the growth and lessons learned along the journey.

Author: Amanda Gorman

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

Author: Daw Kyi

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

Author: Ernest Lawrence

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

Author: Ernest Lawrence

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Author: Stanislaw Lec

Movement isn't progress.

Author: Thomas Leonard

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

Author: Lawrence Lessig

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

Author: George Lewes