Quotes of Progress - somelinesforyou

“ The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. ”

- Barbara Hall

“ The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. ”

- Don Marquis

“ The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ”

- Havelock Ellis

“ The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end. ”

- Henry L. Ellsworth

“ Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. ”

- Petronius Arbiter

“ Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. ”

- Plato

“ Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. ”

- Russell Baker

“ All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities. ”

- Susan Rice

“ The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ We are pleased with the progress of our international operations, whilst we remain cautious about prospects in the UK, where we have experienced the slowdown in consumer expenditure. ”

- John Clare

“ What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ”

- Havelock Ellis

“ The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Sidney J. Harris

“ You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. ”

- Henry Miller

“ We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough. ”

- Barack Obama

“ It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off fr'm th' angels. ”

- Finley Peter Dunne

“ We are very pleased with our results for the quarter, achieved as they were in a challenging economic climate, and encouraged by the turnaround we enjoyed at several of our key businesses. ”

- Rupert Murdoch

“ Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving. ”

- Harold Mayfield

“ The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word. ”

- Joseph R. Sizoo

“ The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress. ”

- Philip Roth

“ We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. ”

- James Freeman Clarke

“ All change is not growth; all movement is not forward. ”

- Ellen Glasgow
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