Progress Quotes

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

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

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

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

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

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

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.

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.

The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress.

If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice.

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress.