Progress Quotes - Page 9

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.

Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.

No one can be saved without divine light. Divine light causes us to begin and to make progress, and it leads us to the summit of perfection. Therefore if you want to begin and to receive this divine light, pray. If you have begun to make progress and want this light to be intensified within you, pray. And if you have reached the summit of perfection, and want to be super-illumined so as to remain in that state, pray.

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

The United Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change - even radical change - possible without violent upheaval. The United Nations has no vested interest in the status quo. It seeks a more secure world, a better world, a world of progress for all peoples. In the dynamic world society which is the objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have equality and equal rights.

The power of consumer goods . . . has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by appropriating them, has emptied them of their meaning, and changed their nature.

It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.

Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations.

If you are through with dreams, then progress halts.

To make progress we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies.

Biblical Theology...is that part of Exegetical Theology which deals with the revelation of God in its historic continuity...Biblical Theology, rightly defined, is nothing else than the exhibition of the organic progress of supernatural revelation in its historic continuity and multiformity.

A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people.

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world's problems.

Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.