Progress Quotes

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

~ Albert Camus

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

~ Renée Fleming

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

~ Walter Bagehot

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

~ Bertrand Russell

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

~ Charles Kettering

Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance.

~ Hillary Clinton

I care very much about women and their progress. I didn't go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.

~ Sandra Day O'connor

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

~ Helene Deutsch

As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another barrier to progress that hasn't been addressed: Many men who would like to see more women leaders are afraid to speak up about it.

~ Adam Grant

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

~ Emma Goldman

By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.

~ Jenny Shipley

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

~ John F. Kennedy

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

~ Karl Marx

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

~ Gerald R. Ford

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

~ Vladimir Lenin

When it comes to discrimination, Americans pride ourselves on how far we've come. Racial segregation is history. Explicit sex discrimination is banned. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. But amidst all the progress, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big.

~ Cass Sunstein

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

~ Harold Washington

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

~ Dick Gregory

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

~ Barack Obama

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

~ Adam Schiff

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

~ Christopher Hitchens

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

~ Indira Gandhi

The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.

~ Julian Baggini

Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.

~ T. E. Hulme

I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.

~ Adrian Tomine

The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.

~ John Young

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

~ Wilhelm Dilthey

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

~ Virginia Postrel

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

~ Herbert Read

The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them.

~ Debbie Wasserman Schultz

The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.

~ Nancy Gibbs

The growth of medical expenditures in the U.S. is not caused by administrative costs but by increases in the technical intensity of care over time - a.k.a. medical progress.

~ Virginia Postrel

Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.

~ Gabrielle Giffords

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

~ Kelly Miller

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

~ Anna Howard Shaw

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

~ Nicholas M. Butler