Progress Quotes - Page 25

• If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.

  Thomas Reed

  Matter, Today, Utopia

  "Orations and addresses".

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• Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.

  Robert W. Service

  Years, Old Year, Lasts

  ROBERT W. SERVICE (1917). “rhymes of rolling stone”

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• All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

  Herbert Hoover

  Government, Growth, Matter

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Democracy, Uniforms, Ancient

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America: Book One”, p.30, eKitap Projesi

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• Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress

  Wilferd Peterson

  Creativity, Ideas, Creative

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• In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food

  Lord Acton

  Wisdom, Strong, Ignorance

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.28, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of that. Sickness and death are part of life. But you can optimize your life. You can make progress as you strive toward perfection.

  Brian Carter

  Health, Perfect, Wish

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• Ever so often in the history of human endeavour, there comes a breakthrough that takes humankind across a frontier into a new era. ... today's announcement is such a breakthrough, a breakthrough that opens the way for massive advancement in the treatment of cancer and hereditary diseases. And that is only the beginning.

  Tony Blair

  Cancer, Science, Advancement

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• I am so grateful for my physical therapist, Teresa England, who taught me to respect the process of recovery. Healing is sometimes slow, and any pace but fast was alien to me. To me, the idea of patience and gradual progress was a very foreign idea. I truly learned patience from this woman, and how to appreciate the smallest signs of improvement.

  Tara Subkoff

  Cancer, Grateful, Healing

  "Tara Subkoff: 'I Survived a Brain Tumor'" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. Apr 17, 2010.

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• Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress.

  John C. Maxwell

  Change, Strong, Moving Forward

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• Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Destiny, Men, Astrology

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.195, Advaita Ashrama

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• Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem . . . ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.

  Daniel Starch

  Mean, Agency, Competition

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• We can no longer allow multi-nationalists to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.

  John Sweeney

  Democracy, Agents, Workplace

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• Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

  Albert Einstein

  Law, Civilization, Community

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• ...if we are to make significant progress on meeting these Goals and stay true to the promise the world made to build a better, fairer world for all, there is no time to lose in putting in place the necessary policies and resources needed to achieve these aims.

  Kemal Dervis

  Time, Goal, Promise

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• Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Success, Creativity, Odds

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• I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere.

  Angelina Jolie

  Issues, People, Hopeful

  "MTV to Air Trip by Jolie to Africa", www.foxnews.com. March 30, 2006.

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• Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.

  Francois Bourguignon

  Country, Growth, Half

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• Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Path, Suits, Prophet

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.167, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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  The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Treatment, Thermometers, Nations

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Race, Humans

  Swami Vivekananda (2014). “Raja Yoga”, p.11, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, World, Misery

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2921, Manonmani Publishers

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• The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Tests, Renunciation, Amount

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

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• There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Men, Desire

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1845, Manonmani Publishers

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• We know there is no progress in a straight line.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Lines, Knows, Straight Lines

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.379, Manonmani Publishers

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