Progress Quotes

My own general thesis was somewhat to this effect: that Artists have worried the world by being wantonly, needlessly, and gratuitously progressive. Politicians have to be progressive; that is, they have to live in the future, because they know they have done nothing but evil in the past. But Artists, who have been right from the beginning of the world, who were, perhaps, the only people who were right even in the beginning of the world, decorating pottery or designing rude frescoes on the rock when other people were fighting or offering human sacrifice, they have no right to despise their own past.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Keep planting new seeds until your mind becomes the earth that gives birth to new worlds.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Older people sometimes talk about the good old days when life was better. In fact, they talk nostalgically about their own youth that was irretrievably gone. The past century has made enormous progress in all fields. The standard of living, work environment, health care quality and mobility, and the availability of cultural programs, recreational activities and information – all that clearly speaks in favor of nowadays.

~ Eraldo Banovac

In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer’s yard.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.

~ H.g. Wells

Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us after a long absence and instead of the old, familiar trees were to find in our souls English gardens and stone walls -- that is to say, other loves, other tastes, other interests, they would gaze upon us sadly and tenderly for a moment, wiping away their tears, and then return to their tombs to rest.

~ Teresa De La Parra

Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it, it is still to make.

~ Susan Ertz

Change, development and progress, according to the Islamic viewpoint, refer to the return to the genuine Islam enunciated and practised by the Holy Prophet (may God bless and give him Peace!) and his noble Companions and their Followers (blessing and peace be upon them all!) and the faith and practice of genuine Muslims after them; and they also refer to the self and mean its return to its original nature and religion (Islam).

~ Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

If you want to change something, whether in a relationship, work, or anywhere, identify and focus on the few most important bits, and don't throw in extras to mess it up.

~ Jay Woodman

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

~ George Bernard Shaw

It's in the nature of the landscape to change, and it's in the nature of people to help the process along...

~ John Darnielle

The leader’s joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

it is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of humanity's common life. Women, forced to lead restricted lives, retard all human progress. Growth of organism, the individual or social body requires use of all of our powers in four areas: physical, intellectual, spiritual and social

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Change is a quintessential element of progress. Without change, progress is non-existent.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Change plus innovation equals progress!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Change is automatic, but progress is not. Death is certain, but LIVING a good life is a CHOICE

~ Sesan Kareem

Popular upheaval, political turmoil, industrial progress—any combination of these can cause the evolution of a society to leapfrog generations, sweeping aside aspects of the past that might otherwise have lingered for decades. And this must be especially so, when those with newfound power are men who distrust any form of hesitation or nuance, and who prize self-assurance above all.

~ Amor Towles

A conservative culture will resist change and treat progress as a virus

~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

But wasn't that progress too, that the elephants were killed off like the mastodon and giant rhino before them, like all other wildlife and wild places? 'We can't stop time,' MacAdam said. 'But you can change the way it goes,' Nehemiah insisted.

~ Mike Bond

I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born selfish, abusive, vile. Just look around you and see. Society cynical and ferocious, the humble heckled and pillaged by the rich traffickers in necessities. Everywhere the triumph of the mediocre and unscrupulous, everywhere the apotheosis of crooked politics and finance. And you think you can make any progress against a stream like that? No, man has never changed. His soul was corrupt in the days of Genesis and is not less rotten at present. Only the form of his sins varies. Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.

~ Joris-Karl Huysmans

As long as your work remains unwritten in your head, it has no effect on anyone. Except you. And not in a good way. Once you let your idea out of the hermetically sealed vault of your brain and out into the fresh air, it will immediately start to evolve. The minute you get it down on a piece of paper, it will change.And once you let it out of the house — once someone else gets to experience it — everything is changed.You are changed. The project is changed. The audience is changed.That’s the alchemy of art.

~ Sam Bennett

There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take one step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off the path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better.

~ Brandon Sanderson

The Christian versions of the household codes were clearly progressive for their time, but does that mean they have the last word, that Christians in changing places and times cannot progress further?

~ Rachel Held Evans

Success is a process, not an event.

~ Richie Norton

Rhetorical question: Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo?I didn't.

~ Richie Norton

Be Practical. That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Progress has a steep price. Success has an even steeper price. Your team won't be willing to pay it if you aren't willing to pay it.

~ T Jay Taylor

No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ludicrous fools who sometimes hoped to achieve some ideal by fiat, by their great desire for it. But usually by bullying all mankind into believing them.

~ Saul Bellow

The speed at which progress rolls is not determined by the number of people who started pushing it, but by the number of people who are passionate to hold on doing so.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders are lovers of change. Without change, growth is static. To lead, you have to appreciate change; else change will depreciate you!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Preferring steady progress, slow and imperfect, is a good philosophy for the defeated.

~ Fred Lowe Soper

It is much easier to evaluate perfect rather than partial results.

~ Fred Lowe Soper

All the progress in science can’t be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses—to smell trouble or just something fishy.

~ Pawan Mishra

If you're determined to stand, nothing can move you. If you're determined to move, nothing can stop you. Determination is the key!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It’s is good you are about something. But wait and ask, “why and how?”. Without “whys and hows”, not every energetic movement can be called progress.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Art is the medium through which new thoughts, perspectives, and attitudes are brought into the world.

~ James Rozoff

If you met the robbers and they robbed you, you should not cry. Think 'how will I go on [do progress] now?' You will get all the help you need. What does one gain by crying 'what will become of me?' Who is the one suffering, the robber or the one who was robbed? The fault is of the sufferer.

~ Dada Bhagwan

There is no progress (spiritual) in this world like the one that comes from being cheated knowingly. This is a very high principle.

~ Dada Bhagwan

These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe