Progress Quotes
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Oscar Wilde
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The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.
William H. Seward
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I've always been attracted to comedy that was really close to the line and made people a little uncomfortable, because that's where progress comes from.
Katherine Ryan
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Africa’s progress will also depend on security and peace - because an essential part of human dignity is being safe and free from fear.
Barack Obama
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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
George Gurdjieff
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We'll recognize and respect whoever emerges as a leader through this system. Our concern, however, is that they (the Iraqis) have to make swift progress to secure a leader.
Jack Straw
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In all things social as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Booker T. Washington
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Inequality promotes progress.
James Cook
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Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.
James Henry Breasted
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My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.
J. D. Greear
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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
B. C. Forbes
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I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.
John Dramani Mahama
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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When you create stuff, you're always going to be progressing and where you're at a year down the line, as the creator, it's always going to feel immature. You're going to notice the flaws and the things that you've learned in that year aren't going to be there. So, I think it's important to see stuff as a capture of time - that's what I was doing at that time - and not be ashamed of it. That's how I try to approach music.
Tom Odell
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Let us not be governed today by what we did yesterday, nor tomorrow by what we do today, for day by day we must show progress.
Andrew Taylor Still
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When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.
Charles William Eliot
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Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.
Andrew Card
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I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.
C. S. Lewis
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Exploring space is a hazardous line of work, always has been and always will be. But if you're going to make progress in aerospace, you've got to accept some risk.
John Young
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Delay is the enemy of progress.
Eliot Spitzer
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Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.
Jaron Lanier
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And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.
Benjamin Carson
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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.
Oscar Wilde
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We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.
Donna Edwards