Progress Quotes

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently, his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

All our inventions and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force.

There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Adversity is the mother of progress.

The tree the tempest with a crash of woodThrows down in front of us is not to barOur passage to our journey's end for good,But just to ask us who we think we are.

The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.