Top 20 Progress Quotes

The best road to progress is freedom’s road. – John F. Kennedy

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass

 

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin

 

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” – Aldous Huxley

 

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. – Kofi Annan

 

“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader.” – Max De Pree

“You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas” – Shirley Chisholm

 

“A little progress every day adds up to big results. – Satya

 

“If we are facing the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” – Buddhist proverb

 

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

“If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.” – Brian Tracy

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress. – Barack Obama

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” – Frank Zappa

“Little by little one walks far.” – Peruvian Proverb

 

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.” – Malcolm Muggeridge

 

“Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.” – Maxwell Maltz

 

“One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.” – Norman Vincent Peale

 

“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.” – Henry David Thoreau

 

Progress Quotes and Sayings

 

“The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.” – Albert Camus

 

“The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.” – Walter Bagehot

 

“Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” – Frederick Wilcox

 

“Progress is not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” – Khalil Gibran

 

“We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.” – John Wooden

 

“Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.” – John Dewey

 

“Never confuse movement with action.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Take pride in how far you have come and had faith in how far you can go.” – Christian Larson

 

“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – St Francis of Assisi

“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and preserve change amid order.” – A N Whitehead

“I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” – Thomas Edison

 

“We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” – C. S. Lewis

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid.” – Joyce Meyer

 

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” – Marie Curie

 

“Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.” – Mia Hamm

 

“Always be a work in progress.” – Emily Lillian

“Change is inevitable. Progress is optional.” – Tony Robbins

 

“Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.” – Winston S. Churchill

 

“Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.” – Henry Steele Commager

“The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.” – Germaine de Stael

“The greatest things ever done on earth have been done little by little.” – Thomas Guthrie

 

“Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.” – James Bryant Conant

 

“The journey is the reward.” – Chinese proverb

“Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of your life. Refer to it daily.” – Brian Tracy

 

“Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer but is the incentive to progress.” – Herbert Hoover

“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.” – Marie Curie

“Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as the pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.” – J. G. Holland

 

I Am Work In Progress Quotes and Sayings

 

“Girls you’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.” – Tori Amos

“Slow, steady progress is better than daily excuses.” – Robin Sharma

 

 

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Buckminster Fuller

“There is no road too long to the person who advances deliberately without undue haste.” – Jean La Bruyere

“Each place along the way is somewhere you had to be in order to be here.” – Dr. Wayne Dyer

 

“Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.” – Robert Heinlein

“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.” – Carl Rogers

“Failure is the success in progress.” – Albert Einstein

 

“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goals requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” – Martin Luther King

 

“Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” – Rosa Luxemburg

“Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.” – Robert Brault

 

Progress Quotes for Entrepreneurs

 

“Every day do something to move the ball forward.” – Jane Atkinson

“Focused, daily actions spread over a long enough period of time will get you any dream you want.” – Kevin Ngo

 

“A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.” – Thomas Carlyle

“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” – Plato

 

“Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.” – C.S. Lewis

 

“Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.” – Alfred Montapert

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

“The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

 

“Some quit due to slow progress. Never grasping the fact that slow progress is progress.” – Jeff Olson

 

“Every difficult goal that, at first, may be viewed as an insurmountable obstacle can be resolved when you implement a strategy that requires only one-step at a time. Each action taken moves you forward, continuous progress is seen, and the final goal is closer and closer until it is accomplished.” – Byron Pulsifer

“I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

“True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.” – St. Francis of Assisi

 

Motivational Progress Quotes and Thoughts

“Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.” – Alfred A. Montapert

 

“When you set out to accomplish something, recognize that slow, steady progress over time can lead to big success.” – Erica Hudson

“Time and again, I’ve seen people make the most progress when they combine their knowledge of themselves with real-world actions.” – Alison Cardy

“Whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King

 

“Procrastination can be categorized as the habit, and that habit, if continued repeatedly and turned into a lifestyle, transforms into a bad habit that can pull us back from progress and delay our success.” – Mark Thomas

“Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.” – Morihei Ueshiba

“Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

“Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.” – Thor Heyerdahl

 

“Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” – Frederick B. Wilcox

 

Progress Quotes and Sayings about Change

 

“Every day that is wasted by doing nothing that makes your life better is an absolute waste. If you decide that you would rather go to the movies, watch TV, or go out with your friends that is a choice you make not to further your own progress. This is not to say that there isn’t a place for relaxation but relaxation is not to be used as an excuse not to move forward. Make each day count for you will never, ever get it back, nor can you really make up for lost time in any effective way.” – Byron Pulsifer

 

“Can you imagine what a pessimist who lived only 200 years ago would think about the world we live in? Airplanes, electricity, automobiles, television, remote controls, the Internet, fax machines, telephones, cellular phones, and so on – and all available to us because of that spark of open-mindedness that allowed progress, growth, and creativity to flourish.” – Wayne Dyer

 

“The most important thing is to make decisions. Whether the decision is right or wrong is secondary. You will soon receive feedback that will help you to progress.” – Marc Reklau

 

“The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.” – Orison S. Marden

“All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

“Great steps in human progress are made by things that don’t work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don’t, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.” – Charles Kettering

“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” – Charles Kettering

 

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak

“We are not at the end of our progress but at the beginning. We have but reached the shores of a great unexplored continent. We cannot turn back . . . It is man’s destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a by-product of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.” – Charles Kettering

 

“Delay is the enemy of progress.” – Eliot Spitzer

 

Best Sayings on Progress Quotes

 

“All progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw

“What was astonishing to me is something that should be more apparent to all of us: the exercises that caused people to increase their progress dramatically were those that took the pressure off, those that did away with the crippling perfectionism that caused people to quit their goals. Whether they were trying to lose a pants size, write more content on a blog, or get a raise, the results were the same. The less that people aimed for perfect, the more productive they became.” – Jon Acuff

 

“As time progresses, increase the amount of time spent on self-improvement, and less time on the mental junk food. Create a healthy balance, it’s no different than indulging in some cake here and there. Moderation, moderation, moderation!” – Curt Hinson

 

“The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.” – Gaston Bachelard

“Now that I am working for myself, there is no one to report to. So it is very easy to be busy but accomplishes very little. An example of this is one of my other websites. In this case, I had no newsletter that had to be done weekly. I had no updates to post. So I worked away on the website but with very little focus. I was getting frustrated as I felt I was investing a lot of time and seeing no progress. So, I developed a list and each week, if I do nothing else, I make sure I complete the items on the list.” – Catherine Pulsifer

 

“Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.” – Marcus Garvey

“The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke and grows up beneath the oppression of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side are proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.” – John Jay Chapman

 

“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.” – Calvin Coolidge

 

Progress Quotes (Powerful Quotes about Progress)

 

“Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.” – Joseph A. Schumpeter

 

“Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.” – Madame De Stael

 

“My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.” – Peter Golkin

 

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