Progress Quotes

Embrace a diversity of ideas. Embrace the fact that you can disagree with people and not be disagreeable. Embrace the fact that you can find common ground - if you disagree on nine out of 10 things, but can find common ground on that 10th, maybe you can make progress. If you can find common ground, you can accomplish great things.

~ David Boies

Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery.

~ Stephen Laberge

Our progress against malaria is impressive. But vigilance remains a critical ingredient to protect the health of all people.

~ Tom Frieden

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

~ Barack Obama

I travel all the time, but when I come back to the South, I see such progress. In a real sense, a great deal of the South has been redeemed. People feel freer, more complete, more whole, because of what happened in the movement.

~ John Lewis

Terror, married to technology and accommodated by progress in travel, has turned evil individuals into traveling ballistic missiles.

~ Greg Gutfeld

I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that we have made a great deal of progress. But there's still more we have to travel along this road so we get to the place that is consistent with our founding ideals.

~ Eric Holder

The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.

~ Stephen Hawking

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.

~ Randeep Hooda

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world.

~ Marie Curie

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

~ Paul Dirac

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

~ Thor Heyerdahl

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

~ Ogden Nash

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

~ James Thurber

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

~ Vince Cable

We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that going to set us back or is that itself a sign of progress? I don't know the answer.

~ Ann Powers

Of course, technology is not an exogenous force over which humans have no control. We are not constrained by a binary choice between acceptance and rejection. Rather, the decisions we make every day as citizens, consumers, and investors guide technological progress.

~ Klaus Schwab

A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

~ Gale Anne Hurd

Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

~ Andrew Weil

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

~ David Bowie

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

~ Thomas Jefferson

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

~ Paul Harvey

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

~ John F. Kennedy

The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.

~ George Eastman

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

~ Jane Smiley

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

~ Christopher Lasch

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

~ John Moody

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

~ Nelson Mandela

The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?

~ F. W. De Klerk

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

~ Octavia E. Butler

When the war was in progress, England and France agreed wholeheartedly with the Fourteen Points. As soon as the war was won, England, France, and Italy tried to frustrate Wilson's program because it was in conflict with their imperialist policies. As a consequence, the Peace Treaty was one of the most unequal treaties ever negotiated in history.

~ Sun Yat-Sen

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

~ David Mccallum

Life is a work in progress.

~ Jeff Rich

I think it's easy to hold on to this romantic hope that communities such as Niaqornat won't change, because we're in this world where progress is unstoppable, and they're a link to some idealised past.

~ Sarah Gavron

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

~ Kelly Rowland

Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction.

~ Brendon Burchard

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

~ Jim Rohn

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

~ Calvin Coolidge