Progress Quotes

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

~ Barry Gehm

True progress happens slowly, unnoticeable, like a flower blooms slowly and silently.

~ Debasish Mridha

[We] need people who are kind by instinct, not by effort. But that is what we lack in this time. For progress, we have eaten our souls up, and nothing matters anymore.

~ Claire North

a friend is someone who, when you make a mistake reminds you that you will, forever after,be a kinder person because of it...

~ Kate Mullane Robertson

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.

~ Anderson Cooper

Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentration; a symbol (so it seemed to Mr. Bentley, vigorously rolling his strip of turf at Greenwich) of man's soul; of his determination, thought Mr. Bentley, sweeping round the cedar tree, to get outside his body, beyond his house, by means of thought, Einstein, speculation, mathematics, the Mendelian theory––away the aeroplane shot.

~ Virginia Woolf

...she was probably having a few murderous thoughts of her own about any woman that touched him. Good, they were making progress.

~ R.l. Mathewson

Rich or poor it’s nice to have money

~ Alan Sheinwald

Yes, I do think that not everything from the past is outmoded. Giving yourself a chance to possess something very good, taking your time, that's important. Yes, I think everything goes by too fast these days. We talk too fast. We think too fast -- if we think at all, that is! We send e-mails and texts without reading them through, we lose the elegance of proper spelling, politeness, the sense of things. I've seen children publish pictures of themselves vomiting on Facebook. No, no, i'm not against progress; I'm just afraid it will isolate people even more.

~ Grégoire Delacourt

Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Oh! Science! Everything has been revised. For the body and for the soul,--the viaticum,—there are medicine and philosophy,—old wives' remedies and popular songs rearranged. And the pastimes of princes and games they proscribed! Geography, cosmography, mechanics, chemistry!...Science, the new nobility! Progress. The world marches on! Why shouldn’t it turn?It is the vision of numbers. We are going toward the Spirit. There’s no doubt about it, an oracle, I tell you. I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.

~ Arthur Rimbaud

My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.

~ Peter Golkin

The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of perpetual Growth - with a capital G. 'Progress' in our nation has for too long been confused with 'Growth'; I see the two as different, almost incompatible, since progress means, or should mean, change for the better - toward social justice, a livable and open world, equal opportunity and affirmative action for all forms of life. And I mean all forms, not merely the human. The grizzly, the wolf, the rattlesnake, the condor, the coyote, the crocodile, whatever, each and every species has as much right to be here as we do.

~ Edward Abbey

But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and a home with all the modern conveniences. It's not a 2,000-mile-long wall to keep Mexicans out or more accurate weapons to kill them. It's not a better low-fat meal or a faster computer speed. It's not a deodorant, a car, a soft drink, a skin cream. The way forward is found on a path through the wilderness of the head and heart---reason and emotion. Thinking, knowing, understanding.

~ Laurence Gonzales

Life is a progression of becoming who we are.

~ J.r. Rim

When 'Dirty Mack' salts your flow, get beyond feelings of hurt, anger, bitterness, and especially vengeance. Be glad, and take refuge in knowing light has been cast on the shadow of hatred, envy or jealousy that has mocked your shine. And press forward with your purpose - allowing time and space to clear the way for karmic justice on your behalf.

~ T.f. Hodge

Without appreciation (for yourself, others and life itself) there is no growth

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

If there is a soul, then it is a mistake to think that it is given to us completely created. It is created right here for a lifetime. Life is nothing but a long, painful process of creation.

~ Eric Maisel

The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Small steps may appear unimpressive, but don't be deceived. They are the means by which perspectives are subtly altered, mountains are gradually scaled, and lives are drastically changed.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. Further, it is truly international in scope. Any particular advance has been preceded by the contributions of those from many lands who have set firm foundations for further developments. The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.Further, science is a collaborative effort. The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

~ John Bardeen

New ideas leave the old ones shaking in their shoes, don't they?

~ Suzanne Hayes

It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say. Of course, real progress involves growing and developing, which involves changing inside, but that's something the inflexible Backson is unwilling to do.

~ Benjamin Hoff

It takes definitive action to see positive gains.

~ Michael Hyatt

Never fight any progressive moves unless you can move faster to achieve something different.

~ Ferdinard S. Lawson

A goal ensures progress. But one gets much further without a goal.

~ Marty Rubin

Progress is the only road going there.

~ T Jay Taylor

It has seemed to me that each year one should pause to take stock of himself, to ask: Where am I going? What am I becoming? What do I wish to do and become?Most people whom I encountered were without purpose, people who had given themselves no goal. The first goal need not be the final one, for a sailing ship sails first by one wind, then another. The point is that it is always going somewhere, proceeding toward a final destination.

~ Louis L'amour

Without unreservedly surrendering myself to God, whatever place I might raise myself to remains nothing more than a step or possibly two off the hard basement floor of life, for of myself I can be utterly assured that I will never step out of the basement.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Very often, what is meant to be a stepping stone turns out to be a slab of wet cement that will harden around your foot if you do not take the next step soon enough.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A little here and a little there will always accumulate, so why be surprised when steady, small steps take you to great places?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Set your end goal...the steps in between - is your path

~ Gino Norris

The key to success is having no qualms about failure.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Moving forward with success is a greater accomplishment, when we bring others along with us.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.

~ William F. Buckley Jr.

The reason people fail to reach their goals is because they give up too early. They don't understand that most successes are built upon foundations of multiple attempts.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Don’t do it! Don’t you dare think about giving up! EVERYTHING has a process. Work with the process, not against it. Move forward with purpose and never stop believing. You can do this! You know you can.

~ Stephanie Lahart

Stagnation is self-abdication.

~ Ryan Talbot

I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment. 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. In my own work this has been particularly true.

~ Ernest O. Lawrence

Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.

~ Donald Harington