“Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.”
“It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.”
“The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word.”
“Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.”
“Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.”
“All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.”
“The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.”
“Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving.”
“All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.”
“We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.”
“Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.”
“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.”
“You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”
“The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”
“Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.”
“Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.”
“We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.”
“Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
“The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.”
“I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.”
“It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.”
“The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.”
“Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.”
“He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.”
“A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress -- though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.”
“It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.”
“Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.”
“My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.”
“To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.”
“All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”