Progress Quotes

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Relentlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

True progress is slow but sure.

Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

All progression is in the relative world.

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

Start small, think big. Don't worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.

Without death there would be very little progress.