Progress Quotes

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader.
Max De Pree

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

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

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination
Carl Rogers

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
Ram Dass

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

Acorns were good until bread was found.

A thought is an idea in transit.
Pythagoras

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

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
Marcus Garvey

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

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Jane Addams

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records
Roger Waters

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

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.

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

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.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his
Emma Goldman

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
Neil Armstrong

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
Lance Armstrong

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman

New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.
J. D. Hayworth

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
Alan Greenspan

Always do whatever's next.

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.
James Monroe

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
Charles M. Schwab

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

The main issue is growth.
James Walker

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.
Peter Singer

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.
Jane Addams

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
Elizabeth Blackwell

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
Harvey S. Firestone

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.
Jennifer Lopez

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

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

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

Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it.

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

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.
Jeff Bingaman

May this Diwali be filled with prosperity and peace, and love and joy which doesn’t cease.