1,930 Quotes About Progress

Everything you want in life is at the other side of fear of feeling you need something big to get started, but that is a lie.

Move even if it’s with fear, you aren’t meant to stay here.

This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's power. With it he has transformed the planet, annihilated space, and trebled the world's population. But it is also a power which has, like everything human, its negative side, in the desolating sense of rootlessness, vacuity, and the lack of concrete feeling that assails modern man in his moments of real anxiety.

A progressive society is a self-scrutinizing society.

Human is not a species - human is a promise - a promise to never stop growing - a promise to never stop learning from our mistakes - a promise to acknowledge our shortcomings and sharpen our strengths.

Progress is learning to control your world.

In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salvation. As we begin to master the destructive potentialities of modern science, we move toward a new era in which science can fulfill its creative promise and help bring into existence the happiest society the world has ever known.

As some people turned to religion for comfort, so, Highsmith wrote in her notebook in September 1970, she took refuge in her belief that she was making progress as a writer. But she realised that both systems of survival were, however, fundamentally illusory. She wrote, she said, quoting Oscar Wilde because, 'Work never seems to me a reality, but a way of getting rid of reality'.

Building takes many, many mistakes.