1,930 Quotes About Progress

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

One of the most significant barriers to progress is the lack of effective leadership.

Progress is a wonderful thing of course, and I can appreciate the lactiferins that are sprinkled on the pasture to turn the grass to cheese. And yet this lack of cows, however rational it may be, gives one the feeling that the fields and meadows, deprived of their phlegmatic, bemusedly ruminating presence, are pitifully empty.

Tenacity is the mother of progress.

Preferring steady progress, slow and imperfect, is a good philosophy for the defeated.

There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and this progress was good. Life was much harder for tyrants than it had been before.

To me love is like a environment that affords everyone’s growth, today I will not hold onto those who love me, when I experience true love I can be blamable for the right environment for the people to progress in their lives.

Love doesn’t mean a commitment all the time, spread love for progress.

Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.