Progress Quotes

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw

Censorship, Condition, Removal

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
Hunter S. Thompson

Happy, Whole, Crime

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. Truman

Change, Leadership, Men

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Political, Down, Else

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
Barack Obama

Hope, Future, Fear

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
Jim Rohn

Time, Reasonable, Measurable

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Theodore Roosevelt

Work, End, Remember

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

Love, Men, Hate

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

Alone, Learning, Real

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson

Change, Human, Architect

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
Barack Obama

Health, Care, Important

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

Sex, Social, Position

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison

Necessity, Discontent

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

Failure, Show, Satisfied

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Voltaire

Ocean, Error, Rivers

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

Ideas, Standing, Sidelines

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Frederick Douglass

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

Nature, Her, Knows

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
Barack Obama

Fight, Job, Done

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
Marcus Garvey

Humanity, Attraction, Moves

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
John Wooden

Change, Basketball, Else

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
Anthony de Mello

Work, Religion, Politics

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

Life, Through, Whatever

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
B. R. Ambedkar

Women, Community, Degree

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

Means, Backwards, Merely

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.
Victor Hugo

Human, Realize, Race

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

American, Taxes, Twice

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Change, Everything, Same

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Political, Down, Else

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Bertrand Russell

Religion, Enemy, Christian

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