"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."
Read quote
8 likes
Progress quotes
Progress
2.2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Progress
Browse quotes that often appear alongside progress — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Progress quotes (page 15 of 110)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences."
Read quote
8 likes
"History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective."
Read quote
8 likes
"The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person."
Read quote
8 likes
"If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal."
Read quote
8 likes
"Nothing recedes like progress."
Read quote
7 likes
"We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough."
Read quote
7 likes
"And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it."
Read quote
7 likes
"Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress."
Read quote
7 likes
"Never attempt to accelerate your progress"
Read quote
7 likes
"Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still."
Read quote
7 likes
"And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization."
Read quote
7 likes
"The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing."
Read quote
7 likes
"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."
Read quote
7 likes
"I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy."
Read quote
7 likes
"True progress comes not through action, but through awakening."
Read quote
7 likes
"For all the progress, we recognize we're very far from the finish line."
Read quote
7 likes
"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."
Read quote
7 likes
"I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa - and how little progress we've made there. There's no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago."
Read quote
7 likes
"The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible."
Read quote
7 likes