Progress Quotes - Page 53

While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

The past is not what it was.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.

A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the divinest thing that can be seen on earth. The value and interest of history are derived chiefly from the lives and services of the eminent men whom it commemorates. Indeed, without these, there would be no such thing as history, and the progress of a nation would be little worth recording, as the march of a trading caravan across a desert.

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing.

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

I'm happy with my language progress - the only difficulty when I tour Premier League matches is that different people talk to me in different accents - and sometimes I can hardly understand a word!

People want progress, but they don't want change.

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born.

Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.

Change is the watchword of progression.

Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy.

I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me.