Progress Quotes - Page 23

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.

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

I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."

Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.

Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

Movement isn't progress.

It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.

The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.

But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.

Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.

We've had to overcome a lot in America to become a nation of progress. We still have a lot of progress to be made.

Using a mouse, keyboard or gamepad make my arm tired, so I can't use them in a continual manner. The only device I can use for an extended period of time is a joystick. It's posing problems when I'm test-playing something in progress.

Just live! Live now! Don't wait, and don't let anyone tell you that you're a work in progress.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.