Progress Quotes - Page 12

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

We have to start calling sexual harassment out because only then can we start to make progress on it.

Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.

Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval.

How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?

I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot which, however, did not hamper my rapid progress.

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.

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.

The greatest enemy of progress is your last success, you could become so proud of what you've already accomplished that you stop moving ahead to what you can still accomplish

The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that finally came to be considered as dogma. For this reason, it is proper to submit periodically to a very searching examination, principles that we have come to assume without any more discussion.

There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.

The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.

It is impossible to have progress without conscience

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them.

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.

Without death there would be very little progress.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.