Progress Quotes - Page 16

Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.

The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to the disadvantage of the well-off, and that they would end up with an arrangement in which taxes are voted by those who do not pay them.

What regresses, never progresses.

In 1949, I believed that social progress, the triumph of the proletariat, socialism would lead to the emancipation of women. But I saw that nothing came of it: first of all, that socialism was not achieved anywhere, and that in certain countries which called themselves socialist, the situation of women was no better than it was in so-called capitalist countries.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is better than anything else, and that all things are in themselves equally meaningless. Except for the fragments of faith (in progress, in compassion, in conscience, in hope) to which it still clings, illegitimately, such a culture teaches every one of its children that life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

Rest and activity are the steps of progress.

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.

And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.

No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best.

The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never become complacent or despondent about our progress.

I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.

Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.