Progress Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Diplomatic Relations, Engagement, Imperfect

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• Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Civilization, Literature

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• One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following in the wake, and it is becoming every day dearer that the solution of any problem can never be attained on racial, or national, or narrow grounds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Moving, Atoms, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1182, Manonmani Publishers

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• It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.

  Swami Vivekananda

  India, Development, Divinity

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• As a writer and as a human being, Susan Dworkin has always had the
  ability to draw us into new dreams of justice, and to make them
  irresistibly practical, humorous and human. She makes clear that
  progress and pleasure go together.

  Gloria Steinem

  Dream, Humorous, Justice

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• Whether it's in in livability, transportation, or the environment, Portland is always leading the country. We have more to do before we achieve our goals, but we should all be encouraged by our progress and this recognition.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Country, Goal, Portland

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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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• When you have a powerful, long-term vision for something, even against all odds and adversity, you will continue to make progress and people will want to get on board. Why? Because everybody wants to be a part of something great.

  Robin Crow

  Powerful, Adversity, Odds

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• Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

  Octavia Butler

  Intelligent, Thinking, Forever

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• Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Use, Kind

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• The societies which have achieved the most spectacular broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly controlled, not necessarily the biggest in size, or the wealthiest in natural resources. No, what unites them all is their willingness to believe in the magic of the marketplace.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Magic, Size

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• Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.

  Seth Godin

  Tasks, Path, Cliffs

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• Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Entrepreneur, Use, Economic

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.243, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.

  Bruce Lee

  Men, Branches, Impossible

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.150, Tuttle Publishing

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• But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.

  E. M. Forster

  Mean, Humanity, Desire

  E. M. Forster (2015). “The Machine Stops”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Despair, Movement, Unions

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.101, Beacon Press

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• An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

  Booker T. Washington

  Yards, Inches, Complaints

  "The Booker T. Washington. Papers".

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• This work of the Lord is indeed great and marvelous, but it moves forward essentially unnoticed by many of mankind's political, cultural, and academic leaders. It progresses one heart and one family at a time, silently and unobtrusively, its sacred message blessing people everywhere.

  L. Whitney Clayton

  Moving, Heart, Blessing

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• What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

  Terence McKenna

  Ignorance, Historical, Awareness

  "Psychedelic Society". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, February 1984.

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• What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, Thinking, Air

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.224, Pluto Press

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• But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other evidence as even a priest cannot deny; and show, from that evidence, that the Bible is not entitled to credit, as being the word of God.

  Thomas Paine

  Credit, Moral, Deny

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”, p.83

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• Labor #‎ Unions are the leading force for #‎ democratization and #‎ progress .

  Noam Chomsky

  Unions, Force, Labor Union

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• No matter how you feel, you made progress today.

  Kris Carr

  How You Feel, Matter, Today

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• Change is automatic, Progress is Not!

  Tony Robbins

  Twitter post from Nov 23, 2015

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