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Progress Quotes

Progress and advancement are the results of effective planning, implementation, execution of developmental ideas, collective will, hope and continuous hard work. Progression is nothing but a new development, a positive innovation, improved technique, method or suggestion that leads an individual or a society as a whole towards positive growth. Advancement and progression is the mirror to the continuous betterment of the society in terms of science, technology, modernization, liberty, democracy, quality of life, etc. which also accounts for the improvement of the individuals and institutes within this social framework. If the questions pertaining to the disparities in the progress and advancement of different sections are what bother you, go through these famous advancement quotations and sayings for clarity.

Ulysses S. Grant

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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

Anjelica Huston

I think it is easier to hear my voice than see myself onscreen, particularly as the years progress. Watching myself onscreen becomes less and less enthralling.

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.

B. R. Ambedkar

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

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.

Jon Voight

I think the word 'progressive' is a very devious term. It was created as a substitute for 'communist.' What they propose is the reverse of progress.

Indira Gandhi

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

Marie Curie

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

Gerald R. Ford

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Robert Browning

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

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Aldous Huxley

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

George Carlin

Always do whatever's next.

Michelle Obama

You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

Kylian Mbappe

We must always set the bar high, otherwise we do not progress.

Barack Obama

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Harry Kane

I want to keep working hard and looking to progress.

I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.

James Rodriguez

You have to go to your limit to progress.

Shinzo Abe

Japan will help vulnerable developing nations make progress on emissions. In fact, we pledged assistance of about $16 billion over three years from 2013 and met this goal in about a year and a half.

John McCain

America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.

Noam Chomsky

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Tia Mowry

I gained 60 pounds during my pregnancy, but I didn't say, 'I want to lost 10 pounds every month!' Instead, I said, 'I will lose two to three pounds.' I eventually saw progress, and that made me work harder.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

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Robert Kennedy

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

Tony Blair

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

Jurnee Smollett

Marriage is a work in progress, but it's beautiful.

Work Marriage
Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Ayn Rand

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.

John Maynard Keynes

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

Mark Zuckerberg

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.

C. S. Lewis

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.

Xi Jinping

The Chinese people are a great people; they are industrious and brave, and they never pause in pursuit of progress.

Albert Camus

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

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John Stuart Mill

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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.

Karl Marx

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.

Mao Zedong

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.

T. S. Eliot

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

Artists Personality

We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world.

Susan B. Anthony

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

Oscar Wilde

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.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Vladimir Lenin

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

We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national achievement by the Gross National Product.

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Khalil Gibran

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

Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary.

Henry Miller

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

I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

Karl Marx

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

Mukesh Ambani

I have always believed that technology drives human civilization's endeavor and progress.

Jon Bon Jovi

I like progress but I hate change.

Harry Kane

I think to progress in major tournaments and to be at your best, you need a big squad, and you need to rotate it.

Alexander Hamilton

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.

Albert Einstein

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

Epictetus

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Charles Baudelaire

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Hillary Clinton

Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance.

John F. Kennedy

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

Michelle Williams

The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.

Calvin Coolidge

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

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Simone Weil

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Jennifer Lopez

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.

Carl Jung

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.

I care very much about women and their progress. I didn't go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.

Boris Johnson

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

What we need to do is lay out a plan and a vision that people can believe in. And getting into Twitter fights with the president is not exactly where we're going to find progress as a nation.

Pope Francis

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

All my tattoos, they've been thought out, thought over, been a work in progress for at least a year before I've got them. So I'm not walking into a tattoo shop, picking tattoos off a wall. It's something that means something to me. It's something that I believe in.

James Comey

We've made great progress coordinating better as a government.

Matt Smith

I think expectations of 'Doctor Who' should always be high, because it's a show that must always progress and get better and better.

Barbra Streisand

I'm a work in progress.

Ilhan Omar

Minnesota's diversity should be its greatest strength, but our neglect of nonwhite students has stifled our progress toward growth and equity.

Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.

Sigmund Freud

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

Woodrow Wilson

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Barack Obama

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.

Zoe Saldana

I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

Alice Walker

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.

Charles Baudelaire

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

James Russell Lowell

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

Ronald Reagan

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

John F. Kennedy

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Isaac Newton

It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

James Madison

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

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

Robert Kennedy

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.

Jeanie Buss

Every fan wants to win every year, that's how my dad was. It would be nice to be able to do that every year, but I think Lakers fans know, as long as they see progress, and steps going in the right direction, they'll be patient.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Narendra Modi

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

Ilaiyaraaja

You can realise God as you progress in music; nothing in between.