Progress Quotes

• The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

  

  Artur Davis
  • Progress

• As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

  

  Eric Kandel
  • Long
  • Science
  • Beginning

• The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but ‘to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.' To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work. This result is neither unfair nor unfortunate. It is the means by which copyright advances the progress of science and art.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Art
  • Mean
  • Unfair

• Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

  

  Caroline Pratt
  • Education
  • Step
  • Lifetime

• You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that business mentality separate from the creative one, which is good for the songs. It's always a work in progress.

  

  David Longstreth
  • Creative
  • Figures
  • Mentality

• In this world, progress is for our descendants alone. They will have more of a chance than we did. All the beautiful things ever seen on our world have, of course, already been seen—are being seen at this instant and will always be seen—by our descendants, and by their doubles who have preceded and will follow them. Scions of a finer humanity, they have already mocked and reviled our existence on dead worlds, while overtaking and succeeding us. They continue to scorn us on the living worlds from which we have disappeared, and their contempt for us will have no end on the worlds to come.

  

  Eliot Weinberger
  • Existence
  • Disappeared
  • Succeeding

• Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

  

  Nursultan Nazarbayev
  • Spiritual
  • Bases
  • Accord

• Be ever watchful for the opportunity to shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity; be generous to their schools, their hospitals, and their places of worship. For, as they must bear the burdens of our mistakes, so are they in their innocence the repositories of our hopes for the upward progress of humanity.

  

  Conrad Hilton
  • Children
  • Opportunity
  • Humanity

• As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Energy

• The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Question
  • Progress

• For all the progress, we recognize we're very far from the finish line.

  

  Bill Ford
  • Progress
  • Recognize
  • Finish Line

• The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Soul
  • Perfect
  • Joy

• Change doesnt always mean progress, but the status quo isnt always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.

  

  Harsha Bhogle
  • Change
  • Progress

• Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.

  

  Benjamin De Casseres
  • Progress
  • Victory
  • Dogma

• Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • Law
  • Progress

• If you're trying to diet, what do you do? You grab your two friends and say, 'We're going to the gym; let's do this together.' Money shouldn't be any different. If you're trying to make progress, if you're trying to save more, we really need to be able to get support.

  

  Alexa Von Tobel
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Money

• When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe. But when he tries to extend his proposition to everything, though it is much more interesting, it is also much more dangerous. In the transition from one to all, from the specific to the general, mathematics has made its greatest progress, and suffered its most serious setbacks, of which the logical paradoxes constitute the most important part. For, if mathematics is to advance securely and confidently, it must first set its affairs in order at home.

  

  Edward Kasner
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Home

• A great many of us have confused change with progress.

  

  Adela Rogers St. Johns
  • Change
  • Progress
  • Confused

• Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

  

  Richard John Neuhaus
  • Progress
  • Slavery
  • Regression

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

  

  George Zebrowski
  • Progress
  • Perfection
  • Striving

• The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Country
  • Action
  • Attitude

• The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?

  

  William McKinley
  • Father
  • Effort
  • Path

• We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified — how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don’t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • World
  • Action
  • Purpose

• Technology isn't fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already was a general loss of confidence in the Western religions.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Technology
  • Problem
  • Promise

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