Progress Quotes

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

Live, Desire, Beyond

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
Thor Heyerdahl

Ability, Simplicity, Complicate

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
Mark Zuckerberg

Business, Simple, Actually

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

Victory, Aim, Argument

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

Forward, Whether, Move

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

Life, Enjoyment

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Trust, Good, Government

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
John Stuart Mill

Life, Political, Both

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee Williams

Work, God, Humanity

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.
David Bowie

Work, Religion, Technology

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.
Daniel De Leon

Heart, Human, Old

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

Security, Soon, Lesson

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
Alice Walker

Life, Everyone, Actually

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

Mean, Made, Believing

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

Success, Business, Individual

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering

Change, Hates, Brought

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

Easy, Nor, Taught

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.
Arnold H. Glasow

Happens, Necessity, Yields

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
Mao Zedong

Thought, Culture, Flowers

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.
Tony Benn

Time, Ignore, Find

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

Power, Human, Question

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

War, Reason, Folly

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

Mind, Important, Direction

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
Earl Warren

Government, Others, Social

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
Albert Pike

Doubt, Reason, Judgment

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

Protection, Consumer, Incentive

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
Simone Weil

Nothing, Idea, Poison

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
Alfred Adler

Great, Death, Real

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Vladimir Lenin

Time, Revolution, Impossible

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.
Morihei Ueshiba

Secret, Train, Nowhere

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