Progress Quotes

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

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.

However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

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

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.

These are times of unprecedented challenge and change in the airline industry, and the appointments we are announcing today will put American in an even stronger position to continue the substantial progress that has already been made under the tenets of our Turnaround Plan.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.

I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities.

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

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

We are making progress militarily, there is no doubt about that. You've seen the reports from Misrata, although reports of the Gaddafi forces completely pulling out of Misrata seem to be exaggerated.

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.

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

Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.

My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

Nothing recedes like progress.

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.