Progress Quotes

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Struggle, Justice, Human

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

Success, Together, Working

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis

Wrong, Means, Road

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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Justice, Law, Become

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

Problem, Another, Face

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

Hands, Criminal, Axe

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The best road to progress is freedom's road.
John F. Kennedy

Best, Freedom, Road

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Enough, Whether, Test

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Bruce Barton

Change, Hope, Fear

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama

Islam, Justice, Human

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Liberty, Natural

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx

Great, History, Sex

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw

Change, Cannot, Impossible

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.
Mahatma Gandhi

Strong, May, Thought

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, Honest, Often

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

Success, Words, Growth

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Oscar Wilde

True, Ambition, Ourselves

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Robert Kennedy

Change, Nice, Word

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Ronald Reagan

Mind, Human, Around

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
Mahatma Gandhi

Healthy, Discontent, Prelude

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.
Frederick Douglass

Freedom, Black, Republican

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Jim Rohn

Cannot, Sometimes, Decisions

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy

Education, Mind, Human

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

Lies, Toward, Advancing

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.
Cesar Chavez

Forget, Enough, Cannot

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
Paul Harvey

Opposite, Con, Pro

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

Down, Path, Keep

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.
Jim Rohn

Success, Personal, Goals

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand

Men, Society, Free

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