Progress Quotes

Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. They are bright, while the level below is still in darkness. But soon the light, which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain, and penetrates to the deepest valley. First come hints, then fragments of systems, then defective systems, then complete and harmonious systems. The sound opinion, held for a time by one bold speculator, becomes the opinion of a small minority, of a strong minority, of a majority of mankind. Thus, the great progress goes on.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

H. Ross Perot

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

Henry David Thoreau

Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it

Victor Hugo

Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

C.S. Lewis

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

Ogden Nash

New roads; new ruts.

G. K. Chesterton

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Christian Nevell Bovee

But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

Jonathan Swift

Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

Pantanjali

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

James Freeman Clarke

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

Lewis Mumford

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.

Henry Miller

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

There is no great discoveries and advances, as long as there is an unhappy child on earth. / Ne možemo govoriti o napretku ?ovje?anstva, dok na svijetu ima nesretne djece.

Albert Einstein

All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

To progress is always to begin always to begin again

Martin Luther King Jr.

only made billionaires out of millionaires. is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress.

Kurt Vonnegut