Progress Quotes

• And our big theme has been, you have made so much progress, we urge you on with the openings and market openings that have occurred. They clearly work and continuing on that path will produce further growth and further opportunities for the Indian people.

  

  John W. Snow
  • People
  • Work
  • Growth

• Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

  

  Jaron Lanier
  • People
  • Progress

• I like being able to see an innocence in people. I see a lot of beauty in youth. Young people are in progress. Their faces and bodies and minds are constantly changing. It's exciting to capture that on film.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • People
  • Progress

• We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.

  

  Donna Edwards
  • Work
  • America
  • Perfect

• The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

  

  Alfred Marshall
  • May
  • Hope
  • Support

• 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
  • Men
  • Long
  • Mean

• 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
  • Progress

• From the first the progress of man has been slowly but surely from the artificial to the natural, from the arbitrary and chimerical to the simple and scientific. Getting himself and his affairs more and more into natural currents and following them, this is the way man has progressed.

  

  John Burroughs
  • Simple
  • Progress

• Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.

  

  Peter Camejo
  • People
  • Good
  • America

• 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
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• 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
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Ashamed

• Capitalism is the only system where such men are free to function and where progress is accompanied, not by forced privations, but by a constant rise in the general level of prosperity, of consumption and of enjoyment of life.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Life
  • Men
  • Free

• We are pleased with the very positive reception our offer has received, and are confident that progress is being made towards establishing the regulatory framework for the offer.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • Positive
  • Progress

• Invest in a trainer. You see the progress so quickly, and you push yourself in new ways.

  

  Camila Mendes
  • Progress

• But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

  

  Janet Suzman
  • Science
  • Son
  • Progress

• Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

  

  George Zebrowski
  • Progress
  • Perfection
  • Striving

• We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

  

  Michael Foot
  • Purpose
  • Always
  • Certain

• Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.

  

  Pete Sampras
  • Work
  • Progress
  • Retirement

• 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
  • Accept
  • Line
  • Exploring

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

  

  James Henry Breasted
  • Important
  • Progress

• I was only 14 when I started playing the east London rave scene. At the time, I was so captivated by everything. I didn't ever wanna progress out of that scene.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Time
  • Progress

• Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • Power
  • Progress

• Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

  

  Franz Grillparzer
  • Progress

• 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
  • People
  • Progress
  • Understand

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