Progress Quotes

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

~ Aberjhani

Every turning point in a person's life isn't reached by luck, they choose to be successful, they know what it takes to be there, they can do what is expected of them to do, they do not show trepidation about the requirements needed to be on top

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Perhaps we don’t progress, because there are so many views – so many paths to peace and happiness – that we get hung up on each path’s differences. Trying to sort out right from wrong when the rights mean so much to us that we can’t look at them objectively.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbor of humanity's great aspirations.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Throw an idea into the world and its impact will ripple and reverberate beyond your side of the shore.

~ A.e. Samaan

While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting any superiority over him; and so, though more humble than at the most disastrous period of his downward voyage, he was getting into a better temper every minute.

~ Thomas Hughes

Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won't be ready for anything if you aren't ready to be you.

~ Kaiden Blake

It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it.

~ H.g. Wells

As a human rights activist it is concerning to me that those committing atrocities against vulnerable people view these atrocities as 'progress', and assert with pride and conviction that they are 'Christians' and that they are doing 'God's will'.

~ Christina Engela

Your obsession determines what you pay attention to. Your observations are limited to the focus of your mind.

~ Emmanuel Ayensu

The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.

~ Orrin Woodward

Woe to him who becomes useless to human progress!

~ Ernest Renan

Sometimes I find it difficult to determine whether or not I'm merely spinning my wheels or making progress. Nevertheless, I must keep moving on until I reach a destination. For I would much rather be in perpetual motion with the promise of reaching some place majestic beyond the horizon, rather than sitting idle alongside a dirt road watching time hurriedly pass me by.

~ Terry A. O'neal

Always put your best foot forward, because you never know where your next step may lead you.

~ Stephan Labossiere

Progressing at a snail’s pace is still progress, and slow progress is better than no progress. Never be stagnant, and never give up.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

They say to never look back.But sometimes I do. It’s gratifying to see how far I’ve come.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it's done—peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Perfection is a paradigm meant to keep us striving and learning and growing. Like a wondrous sunset, perfection may be beyond our reach, but it is within our view and well worth seeking after.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand.

~ Abhijit Naskar

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?

~ Nipsey Russell

That had been the end of Communism. I had a feeling watching the tape that America would be next, but for once I kept my mouth shut. In my silence I felt our common ground: here we were, two men, neither young, neither with money, neither earning a penny or holding down a job or owning a house, both thoroughly confused by the way the world was turning.

~ Don J. Snyder

Heresy is the eternal dawn, the morning star, the glittering herald of the day. Heresy is the last and best thought. It is the perpetual New World, the unknown sea, toward which the brave all sail. It is the eternal horizon of progress.Heresy extends the hospitalities of the brain to a new thought.Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy, a coffin.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

You are an unfinished work in progress. One of the good things about life's challenges: you get to find out that you're capable of being far more than you ever thought possible.

~ Karen Salmonsohn

For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!

~ Arthur Hugh Clough

In a feast of fame and talks,Scandal flashing, raising tongue and brows.In a blast of bombing and power play,Fear and death dig more revenge.In a forgotten continent,Famine and drought devour lives.In an unfortunate eye of a rebelling weather,Crashing homes, leaving many in devastation and desperation.In a country shaking with violence,Innocent victims cry for justice and peace.In a home shaking with turmoil, Humble patient, hiding voice wants to be heard.In a tick of a second,A new breathe of life beats!To belong in this world.Constantly changing, decaying or improving?In a snap of innovation:Life goes big leap!Regression somewhere unseen,But felt in a slow, long run.

~ Angelica Hopes

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

~ Abraham Lincoln

To reach a port we must set sail –Sail, not tie at anchorSail, not drift.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Progress always involves risk, you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

~ F.w. Dupee

After that it was easy. It was the most impossible thing I’d ever done, but it was also easy. I held on to Jamie, and I kept moving forward.

~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Do you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go from house to car to office to car to wherever, with the heater on, and the defroster on, protected from the rain and the cold? It hasn’t been much longer than that we’ve had lighting for streets. Think of all that darkness, all that world out there, all that mystery that we’ve turned into well-lighted concrete bunkers, safe and warm and dull.

~ Sheri S. Tepper

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Some upstarts always try to get closer to the source of creation by ascending to the source's level. The story of Icarus is of course a parable about the folly of such an effort. Get too close to the sun and your hubris will get you burned. Yet in the eyes of twenty-first-century capitalist culture, which worships at the twin altars of the individual and technology, Icarus had initiative. And his melted wings do not represent some deep character flaw; he just needed better beta testers.

~ Marcus Wohlsen

Progress is not alone a matter of technology.

~ C.drying

Does the fact that I can no longer remember my own phone number indicate my growing feebleness? No, on the contrary, it unleashes the mind from the petty tyranny of tending to the trivial and allows it to concentrate on the important and the critical.

~ Don Norman

The explosive development of technology was analogous to the grown of cancer cells, and the results would be identical: the exhaustion of all sources of nourishment, the destruction of organs, and the final death of the host body. He advocated abolishing crude technologies such as fossil fuels and nuclear energy and keeping gentler technologies such as solar power and small-scale hydroelectric power.

~ Liu Cixin

It's going to happen whether you like it or not,” he said quietly.The top of the book dropped to display Susan's wrinkled gaze. “What's that?”“Change,” Rich said. “It's inevitable.

~ Danika Stone

The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.

~ R.f. Georgy

Mechanism! Everywhere -- mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.

~ John Galsworthy