Enemy Of Progress Quotes

• Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Nice, Inspiration

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Honesty, Future

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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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• Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Power, Men, Effort

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• The greatest enemy of progress is your last success, you could become so proud of what you've already accomplished that you stop moving ahead to what you can still accomplish

  Myles Munroe

  Moving, Self Improvement, Proud

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• The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

  Trevor Baylis

  Success, Thinking, Keys

  "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future". Book by Daniel H. Pink, 2005.

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• The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Enemy, Progress, Stagnation

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• Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world's problems.

  David Cameron

  Cancer, Heart, World

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• Delay is the enemy of progress.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Enemy, Progress, Delay

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• Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.

  Bion of Borysthenes

  Self, Conceit, Enemy

  "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, Book IV, 50,

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• The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

  Nate Silver

  Quests, Outcomes, Certainty

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• The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human affairs.

  John Stuart Mill

  War, History, Evil

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• Free time is the enemy of progress

  Casey Neistat

  Enemy, Progress, Free Time

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