Top 1200 Pilgrims Progress Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.

We will invest heavily in safety and security... preserve the environment... make progress on biodiversity and economic progress.

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

Remember that progress is not linear either. Sometimes you make great progress for a while and then you slide back a little. That's OK. Don't give up.

The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.

There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground.

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

History says that progress often requires sacrifice, but what kind of progress can we claim when it is built on the lives of the citizens it is supposed to aid?

The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods of killing people became increasingly sophisticated. Scientific and technological progress certainly does not imply that humankind as a result becomes more civilized.

The limitations of federal laws are able to create real progress at the local level. Ultimately, to effect not just incremental progress but progress that is transformational for students, we need committed leadership - people who believe deeply that their students can achieve at the highest levels and who know how to create the conditions at the classroom, school and system level to give them the opportunities they deserve.

I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.

If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.

Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.

Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress.

Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for some brilliant stroke, some lucky discovery, or the advent of some superman, has been the chief gift of science to social philosophy.

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.

Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second, to chronicle that progress cheerfully, truthfully, and entertainingly.

The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.

The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.

Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.

Walking by faith will cause all of us to recognize that as children of God we are just pilgrims and strangers down here on this earth.

One of my favorite songs is by Mavado. The song is called "Progress." It's something that I work out to every day. Progress is definitely the answer.

You can't stop progress, but you can help decide what is progress and what isn't.

It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.

LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.

How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede progress, but we are seeking reconnection to ourselves, to each other, and with the world.

People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.

The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

Progress! Progress through everybody dying and their kids eventually not caring who their parents hated!

An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.

Ultimately, what the tech industry really cares about is ushering in the future, but it conflates technological progress with societal progress.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

I already knew, from church, that this place was raped and pillaged by Spaniards and the Pilgrims. "Don't sit here and try to tell me that they broke bread together, brother.

The U.S. government must stand on the side of human rights, the rule of law, and democratic progress, not impede or otherwise stunt such progress.

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

Prejudice exists and probably will continue to `but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.'

Free enterprise system was born the second year the pilgrims were here. And of course, it has made America the most prosperous country in the world.

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.

The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.