Progress Quotes

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

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

I'm a work in progress.

The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.

Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution.

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

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

I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits.

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

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

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

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America.