Quotes on Progress

Leave to your opinions their own quiet undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be pressed or hurried by anything.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

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

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, and with the greatest effort, in exactly those places where it seems most likely that we can prove our theories wrong. In other words, we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Progress is more important than perfection.

Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.