Progress Quotes - Page 32

Sometimes, when there's too much traffic clogging up the road you need to take a different route. But following the same path as everyone else can stall your progress in reaching your investment goals too.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.

Every story I read about Google is about us vs some other company, or something else, and I really don't find that interesting. We should be building great things that don't exist. Being negative is not how we make progress.

Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of the theory is to demonstrate these laws; it reduces all physical researches on the propagation of heat, to problems of the integral calculus, whose elements are given by experiment. No subject has more extensive relations with the progress of industry and the natural sciences; for the action of heat is always present, it influences the processes of the arts, and occurs in all the phenomena of the universe.

It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Such communication has always been... one of the primary sources of progress.

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

Rome was not built in one day.

Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it, to look at it, to witness it. Try and get it. Seize the moment.

There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.]

We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely an attempt to structure events for convenient accessibility. Consequently, we must exclude from our discussion as far as possible such misleading notions as "development" and "progress."

The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.

It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly progress thwarted and obstructed by defendants brought before them charged with crimes.

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and on whether we meet our challenges and protect our values.

It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.

Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

If you want to progress in your life and grow, act not to react.