Top 1200 Progress Quotes & Sayings

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

Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

For Arkansas, I think the sky is the limit, but I think we are going to have to fight the urge to avoid risks. We need to look first at where we are as a state. I think, as a state, we have made progress over the years, but there are two kinds of progress: absolute progress and relative progress.

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

There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. It’s progress if you can stop the world slipping away. My humble model for progress I the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-ending retrieving what it lost. A dogged and vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldn’t go mistaking the reclamation of land for the building of empires.

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

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

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

So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress.

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

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

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

I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the progress of civilization, and I would also say this: that the emancipation of the mind from religious superstition is as essential to the progress of civilization as is emancipation from physical slavery.

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

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

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

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.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

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

The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly under its own momentum is driven to moralize it, to set up goals and rationalize their achievement as progress.

vivisection is not the same thing as scientific progress. There is such a thing as scientific progress. But this wholesale dedication of scientists to vivisection, which is the easy and cheap way, actually prevents them from scientific progress, for true progress is difficult and requires genius and imagination in its devoted workers.

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life.

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.

There must be progress, certainly. But we must ask ourselves what kind of progress we want, and what price we want to pay for it. If, in the name of progress, we want to destroy everything beautiful in our world, and contaminate the air we breathe, and the water we drink, then we are in trouble.

If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why - unlike scientific progress - is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was torturously secured by complex argument comes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance.

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.'

In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The half-intelligibility which we expect, or even hope, to find in the latest product language personally reassures each of us that progress is being made: that the pace exceeds our ability to follow.

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

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

Progress not perfection... you can't be perfect everything... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's weird because there is progress somehow. But there's so much that just feels the same. How important is that rank? How important is it that I am allowed to make these decisions? What does that really mean? What is progress? Is it progress that a black guy gets to push a button for the nuclear bomb? Is that progress? Maybe, I don't know.

Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty.

We need to make sure that the laws we're passing are protecting people. And we should not be voting against something that makes progress just because it doesn't make as much progress as we'd like to see made. As much as I might like to see any number of issues progress in larger steps, I understand that some of these things happen in smaller steps. And so for that reason, progress is progress. And success is success.

Sometimes making progress a step at a time is better than no progress at all.

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

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

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

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

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

What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

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

I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.

Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only.

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

We need to figure out how to merge political progress with actual progress.

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