1,930 Quotes About Progress

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size.

This was a tragic event, but there may be some opportunities here for us. Let's just say we're making progress.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.