Progress Quotes

One of the most significant barriers to progress is the lack of effective leadership.

~ Ken Jennings

Progress is a wonderful thing of course, and I can appreciate the lactiferins that are sprinkled on the pasture to turn the grass to cheese. And yet this lack of cows, however rational it may be, gives one the feeling that the fields and meadows, deprived of their phlegmatic, bemusedly ruminating presence, are pitifully empty.

~ Stanisław Lem

Tenacity is the mother of progress.

~ Valerie M. Hudson

To me love is like a environment that affords everyone’s growth, today I will not hold onto those who love me, when I experience true love I can be blamable for the right environment for the people to progress in their lives.

~ Bharath Mamidoju

Love doesn’t mean a commitment all the time, spread love for progress.

~ Bharath Mamidoju

Serving Leaders work hard to get obstacles out of the way so others can make progress.

~ John Stahl-Wert

Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire.(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices.

~ John Gray

There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and this progress was good. Life was much harder for tyrants than it had been before.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

We all want progress, but if you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

~ C.s. Lewis

The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

The years of disillusion, the long debate of who-belongs-to-who, gathered at the mighty feet of the Bangladesh Liberation War like flood waters rising, gathering thick weeds and crusty dirt and pulling it all in one direction. At times, when the body count was high and the air tasted like bloody ash, the way mass graves smell, Sariyah had wondered what progress was supposed to taste like. Often it tasted like unanswered questions, stuck in the teeth. Bangladesh had given her the true answer, though: progress at its best is home-grown. It should taste like joy – pure, unhindered joy. Like the freshest sun-ripened mango on a tree, a little sunrise in her palm.

~ Katherine Russell

There is no such thing as progress or regress. The world is not getting better and better, nor is it getting worse and worse. It is simply moving along into the future, reiterating in different configurations the patterns that have already occurred. We can’t help but play a role in this unfolding drama, but it is a mistake to think that what we do makes any difference to the grand scheme of things.

~ John Marmysz

Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

~ Toni Morrison

If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith and of fortitude, it is predictable that they will not be able to resist the temptation of the big bang by nuclear weapons, which would end all problems - overpopulation, boredom, and hunger - since it would do away with all life.

~ Erich Fromm

A man is not a tree'...If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish.

~ June Jordan

It is important to understand where to draw a line between progress and perfection.

~ Abhishek Ratna

Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.

~ Damon Galgut

If only we can agree that us mortal human beings only have relevance when there are opposing forces and ideas then we would not be so consumed with tribalism. It is our focus on what others do or say that gives them meaning and relevance. Light that points to the clear sky is consumed by darkness.. In the absence of a reflective object light has no relevance.. Friction/resistance is necessary for forward movement.

~ Lennox D.lampkin

Even the bees I'd swear were sent to protect us in the delicate business of hives and honey are stung to silence by the news that something winged has lost its flight.

~ Kristen Henderson

The reality however is that in order to make progress in life, we have to embrace discomfort.

~ Sunday Adelaja

As a society, we've become suspicious of such acts. Out of ignorance or laziness or timidity, we've turned the Luddites into caricatures, emblems of backwardness. We assume that anyone who rejects a new tool in favor of an older one is guilty of nostalgia, of making choices sentimentally rather than rationally. But the real sentimental fallacy is the assumption that the new thing is always better suited to our purposes and intentions than the old thing. That's the view of a child, naive and pliable. What makes one tool superior to another has nothing to do with how new it is. What matters is how it enlarges us or diminishes us, how it shapes our experience of nature and culture and one another. To cede choices about the texture of our daily lives to a grand abstraction called progress is folly.

~ Nicholas Carr

So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.

~ Kate Atkinson

Those who hear this solemn call of life and respond with the corresponding supply receive progress in life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Progress, You can see how well you are doing on achieving your goals, after you start something.

~ Auliq Ice

In his mind progress was always to be measured in inches, especially when you didn’t have yards or even feet of success to show off.

~ David Baldacci

We must intentionally push ourselves out of our comfort zones if we are to make any significant progress on this side of life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If there is progress anywhere it is because there has been people who worked for it not just prayed for it.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Much of our time is spent just maintaining our emotional lives and physical conditions. To move ahead, we often have to clear a trail as we go. Progress and development do not occur without change in our motivations and actions.

~ James H. Bae

Domestic terrorism is alive and well in the USA and it is masquerading as “Progress”.

~ Steven Magee

But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Soaring is in stages, it progresses as you engage in the very art.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

Most men can make moves, decisions, mistakes, plans, money, babies, love, war, progress, or even history. Not all men have what it takes to make a worthwhile difference in this world. Substance, drive, dedication, intelligence, faith and values; that comes from within. Its not what a MAN can make but what a MAN is made of that's impressive.

~ Carlos Wallace

Progress is impossible without accurate planning.

~ Sunday Adelaja

In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.

~ Meghna Pant

We are confusing making “progress” with eradicating the larger problem.

~ Carlos Wallace

I don't like straight lines: men make them.

~ Richard Adams

Progress isn’t always good. There’s a reason why ‘breakneck speed’ is described as such.

~ Fennel Hudson

Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself.

~ Chris Matakas

Progress however slow is still progress, but be it for the better if sped up quicker.

~ Solange Nicole

On Tuesday December seventh a lot of good things happened: they took the trach out, took the cast off my leg, and my PT, Maria, had me standing.

~ Amy Rankin