Progress Quotes

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

~ Charles Baudelaire

Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.

~ Octavio Paz

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

~ Ayn Rand

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

~ Frederick Douglass

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

~ Frederick Douglass

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

~ Millard Fillmore

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

~ John Wooden

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

~ Robert Kennedy

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

~ Charles Kettering

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

~ Havelock Ellis

The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.

~ David Simon

It became clear to me that simply caring is not enough. To drive real progress, you have to change both hearts and laws. You need both understanding and action.

~ Hillary Clinton

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

~ Alan Perlis

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

~ Ernest Lawrence

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

~ Henry Adams

Integrity is essential and irreplaceable. It is the most valuable asset for a person, a company, or a society seeking to build and progress.

~ Rex Tillerson

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

~ Russell Baker

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

~ Herbert Read

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

~ Joseph A. Schumpeter

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

~ Rutherford B. Hayes

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

~ Nursultan Nazarbayev

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

~ Ramana Maharshi

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

~ Frederick Douglass

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

~ Felix Adler

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

~ Ernest Renan

I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.

~ Mahesh Babu

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

~ Ulysses S. Grant

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

~ Alan Dundes