Progress Quotes

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 Alva Edison

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

Marie Curie

Nothing recedes like progress.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Nadine Gordimer

Today's progress was yesterday's plan.

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Why aren't we making any progress towards a crime-free society? We're not making progress because we are too damn busy making excuses.

Source Unknown

Most people are in favor of progress, it's the changes they don't like.

Source Unknown

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

John Ousterhout

Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.

Florence King

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterward, when you've worked on your own corner.

Aldous Huxley

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

Sydney J. Harris

A radical is one of whom people say He goes too far. A conservative, on the other hand, is one who doesn't go far enough. Then there is the reactionary, one who doesn't go at all. All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

Woodrow Wilson

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Francis Bacon

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Lou Holtz

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Today's science thinks too primitively; indeed it could be said that its thinking is an octave too low. It has still not ventured far enough into the realm of energy, and its attitude has remained development was necessary, for how else should a misguided humanity perceive the true interdependencies? Without doubt, therefore, there is a definite intention to teach young people upside-down methods of working with which they have to miss-earn their daily bread. That is to say, instead of moving forwards, they go backwards all the more rapidly in step with the improvements in the contrary methods of motion. For only thus can today's teaching principles flourish.

Viktor Schauberger

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

Jo Coudert

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Robert A. Heinlein

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Charles Caleb Colton

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

George Eliot