Progress Quotes
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its income.
Chinese Proverb
Climb mountains to see lowlands.
Confucius
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. -- Confucius
Goethe, Johann Von
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Hitopadesa, The
Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge,virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled. -- The Hitopadesa
Hubbard, Elbert
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. -- Elbert Hubbard
Lowell, James Russell
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft. -- James Russell Lowell
Stevenson, Adlai
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
Thurber, James
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long. -- James Thurber