Progress Quotes - Page 9

• The best road to progress is freedom's road.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.176, Best Books on

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• Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, Women, Grandmother

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• The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

  Herbert Hoover

  Presidential, Dinner, Garage

  Campaign speech, New York, N.Y., 22 Oct. 1928.

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• The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

  John F. Kennedy

  Moving, America, United States

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.571, Best Books on

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• To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Mean, Blow

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• Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

  Madame de Stael

  Learning, Mind, Spirals

  "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.

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• The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Change, Art

  Alfred North Whitehead, David Ray Griffin (1978). “Process and reality: an essay in cosmology”, Free Pr

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• Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Funny, Peace, Ubuntu

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• Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of your life. Refer to it daily.

  Brian Tracy

  Use, Grades, Determine

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want - Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.157, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The secret of making progress is to get started.

  Mark Twain

  Secret

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• A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

  Woodrow Wilson

  Hands, People, Conservative

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1976). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!

  George Eliot

  Morning, Stars, Night

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2740, ShandonPress

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• And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Strive, Form

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.32, Penguin

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• Westward the star of empire takes its way.

  John Quincy Adams

  Stars, Empires, Way

  John Quincy Adams (1802). “An Oration, delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1802, at the anniversary commemoration of the first landing of our ancestors at that place”, p.31

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• Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.

  Horace Mann

  Struggle, Heart, Past

  Horace Mann (1895). “Helps to Self-culture”

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• All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Decision, Faces, Civil Rights

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.105, Beacon Press

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• Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

  Ogden Nash

  Long, Gone, Might

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• Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

  Charles Kettering

  New Year, Reality, Old Year

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• There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Thinking, Next

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.29, 谷月社

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• I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.

  Leslie Caron

  Past, Thinking, Done

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• Progress is the exploration of our own error.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Errors, Exploration

  Jacob Bronowski (2008). “The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination”, p.84, Yale University Press

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• I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.

  James A. Garfield

  Fall, Feelings, Growing

  "Garfield's Words: Suggestive Passages from the Public and Private Writings of James Abram Garfield". Book by James Abram Garfield, 1882.

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• By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Race, Age

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• All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Unreasonable, Persons, Depends

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

  Henry Ford

  Confused, Fever, Spirit

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