Progress quotes

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Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

- Robert Musil

Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress made in the Delaware Estuary but in estuaries throughout the country.

- Jim Gerlach

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.

- Charles E. Wilson

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

- Samuel Butler

The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

- James M. Baldwin

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

- Ernest Renan

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

- James Russell Lowell

The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.

- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

- Frederick Douglass

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

- Esa-Pekka Salonen

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

- Roman Jakobson

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

- James Thurber

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

- Thomas A. Edison

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

- Alan Dundes

While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans.

- Sue Kelly

The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.

- Ed Smith

Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution.

- Glenn Beck

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

- James Bryant Conant

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

- Morihei Ueshiba

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

- Russell Baker

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

- C. S. Lewis

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I don't think anyone who has followed the progress of the Islamofascist terrorists who have threatened us believe we are going to be safe if we try a fortress mentality, to step back and say no one is going to hit us, they don't care about the United States. They do.

- Kit Bond

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

- Henry B. Adams

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

- Paul J. Meyer

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

- Voltaire

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.

- Harold Washington

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

- Frederick Douglass

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.

- Robert Barany

One can not impede scientific progress.

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad