Dumb.com >> Quotes >> Progress Quotes
Progress Quotes
This section contains Progress Quotes


Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. (Quote by - Thomas A. Edison)

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. (Quote by - Matsuo Basho)

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. (Quote by - James Madison)

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me. (Quote by - Charles Kettering)

To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in--and To lend a hand. (Quote by - Edward Everett Hale)

All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)

To spur a willing horse. (Quote by - Latin proverb)

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress) (Quote by - William Ralph Inge)

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)

Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history. (Quote by - James Dickey)

Discontent is the first necessity of progress. (Quote by - Thomas A. Edison)

It's P for Progress not R for Recovery. (Quote by - Stuart Rose)

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. (Quote by - James Bryant Conant)

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. (Quote by - Robert Kennedy)

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. (Quote by - Gerald R. Ford)

All rising to great place is by a winding stair. (Quote by - John Quincy Adams)

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)

The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam today. (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)

Pages:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11