Great Progress Quotes

• Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

  Michael J. Fox

  Cancer, Health, Science

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• Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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• Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

  Samuel Smiles

  Moving, Progress, Kind

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.74

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  Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

  Francis Bacon

  Change, Time, Acceptance

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Innovations'

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• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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• Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

  Samuel Smiles

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

  Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Clever, Lying, Men

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• Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress.

  Michael N. Castle

  Determination, Years, Challenges

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• While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans.

  Sue Kelly

  Our Veterans, Long, Promise

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• It is important that karate can be practiced by the young and old, men and women alike. That is, since there is no need for a special training place, equipment, or an opponent, a flexibility in training is provided such that the physically and spiritually weak individual can develop his body and mind so gradually and naturally that he himself may not even realize his own great progress.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Men, Training, Mind

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• It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim the value of this freedom; to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Freedom, Philosophy, Responsibility

  "The Value of Science". Public address at the National Academy of Sciences, published in "What Do You Care What Other People Think" (1988), Autumn 1955.

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• Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough.

  Anthony Stafford Beer

  Land, Car, Progress

  "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 88), 1968.

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• I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car.

  Albert Wynn

  Car, Progress, Hydrogen

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• The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Believe, Fall, Mean

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• Remember that progress is not linear either. Sometimes you make great progress for a while and then you slide back a little. That's OK. Don't give up.

  Lee Labrada

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Progress

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• It is only when your awareness reaches the heart that great progress from your practice is possible.

  Michael Langford

  Heart, Practice, Progress

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• The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  People, Progress, Crime

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.253, Library of Alexandria

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• The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations God responds, and instructs the soul, which co-operates actively. God then puts the soul in a passive state where He accomplishes all, causing great progress, first by way of enjoyment, then by privation, and finally by pure love.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Drawing, Effort, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 240), 1895.

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• The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man

  H. L. Mencken

  Lying, Men, Progress

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• Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Umpires, Progress, Arbitration

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• In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Sports, Teamwork, Play

  "Linda Ronstadt a Solderada for a time such as this". Interview with Dr. Alan Carlos Hernandez, www.heralddeparis.com. June 18, 2010.

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• People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Art, Mean, People

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• Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Science, Civilization, Effort

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