1,930 Quotes About Progress

New ideas leave the old ones shaking in their shoes, don't they?

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

Most importantly we have learned that from here on it is success for all or none, for it is experimentally proven by physics that "unity is plural and at minimum two" - the complementary but not mirror-imaged proton and neutron. You and I are inherently different and complimentary. Together we average as zero - that is, as eternity.

I'm starting with the man in the mirror

Change often brings unimagined opportunity...If there is no struggle, there is no progress. To live in a safe cocoon- I believe that is not truly living. It is stagnation.

It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say. Of course, real progress involves growing and developing, which involves changing inside, but that's something the inflexible Backson is unwilling to do.

When used as a tool, fear will enhance your preparedness; when used as a guide, it will stop your progress.

Progress is not about hating or destroying America, it is about loving and building the world, which can only come from healing our national dementia.

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn’t be more wrong.