Progress Quotes - Page 20

• It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Evil, Brutes

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Selections from Swami Vivekananda”

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• It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes on from one thought to another, he must necessarily reject the first. But no error can lead to truth. The soul passing through its different stages goes from truth to truth, and each stage is true; it goes from lower truth to higher truth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Errors, Perfection, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.350, Manonmani Publishers

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• Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Soul, Mind, Decay

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.102, editionNEXT.com

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• Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Language, Chiefs

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2681, Manonmani Publishers

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• Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress.

  Frederick Douglass

  Philosophy, Struggle, August

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.367, Chicago Review Press

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• I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Believe, Mountain Peaks

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Tungsten, X-rays, and Coolidge form a trinity that has left an indelible impression upon our life and times. The key word in this triad is Coolidge, for his work brought the element tungsten from laboratory obscurity to the central role of the industrial stage and gave the X-ray a central role in the progress of medicine throughout the world.

  Chauncey Guy Suits

  Science, Keys, Medicine

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• Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.

  Christine Lagarde

  Inspiring, Years, Unions

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• Certainly it is true that the constant striving for something better-the price of progress-adds to the total of human happiness. It stimulates industry by creating new wants. It multiplies opportunities for the employment of brain and brawn. And it bridges the gaps between peaks of prosperity and helps take up the slack during times of reaction.

  John Willys

  Happiness, Opportunity, Bridges

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• Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

  Patricia Ireland

  Dream, Moving, Vision

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• Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.

  Bill Shuster

  Moving, Cutting, Government

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• Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.

  Robert Breault

  Mistake, Different, Definitions

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• Keep records of your fitness progress throughout your training. Chart all of the food you eat, the exercises you complete, and even the amount of sleep you get each night. Refer back to your records to see where things went right or went wrong.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Sleep, Exercise

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• You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.

  Robert Breault

  Integrity, Code Of Ethics, Ethics

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• Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Sleep, Self, Organization

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living”, p.30, M-y books ltd

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• It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Women, Care, Humankind

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• The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

  Joseph McCabe

  Atheist, Play, Training

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• I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be a revival of activity in the spring, and that during this coming year the country will make steady progress.

  Andrew Mellon

  Depression, Country, Spring

  "How It Was: The Year After the Crash of 1929" by Dan Agin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2009.

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• The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin, our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?

  Douglas MacArthur

  Religious, Issues, Yield

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• No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward a time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of our Revolutionary ancestors.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Equality, Rights, Ideas

  "Foundations of the Republic; Speeches and Addresses". Book by Calvin Coolidge, 1926.

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• Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.

  David Suzuki

  Years, Environmental, Extinction

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• While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

  Paul Newman

  Rivers, Environmental, Halt

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• The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.

  S. R. Nathan

  Motherhood, Prosperity, Statements

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• It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to be safe...that there can be...stability of value and...economic progress.

  Calvin Coolidge

  People, Evil, Safe

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• Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Keys, Support, Fundamentals

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