| "Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress." »Alfred A. Montapert |
| "The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia." »Elbert Hubbard |
| "The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals." »Germaine De Stael |
| "Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . . .If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters." »Frederick Douglas |
| "Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe that they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level, we cannot hope to achieve a higher level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure." »Lou Vickery |
| "progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience." »George Santayana |
| "Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things." »Russell Baker |
| "All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "If there is no struggle, there is no progress." »Frederick Douglas |
| "Without a struggle, there can be no progress." »Frederick Douglas |
| "progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long." »Ogden Nash |
| "You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Life is a progress, and not a station." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress." »Michelle Burford |
| "Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress." »Thomas Alva Edison |
| "progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy." »Marie Curie |
| "Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork" »Stanislaw Lec |
| "It is not strange ... to mistake change for progress." »Millard Fillmore |
| "All progress occurs because people dare to be different." »Harry Millner |
| "progress is not created by contented people." »Frank Tyger |
| "Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." »Mahatma Gandhi |
| "And from the discontent of one man The world's best progress springs." »Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| "Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress." »Mahatma Gandhi |
| "The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress." »Jeseph Joubert |
| "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 |
| "All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson |
| "Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality." »George Santayana |
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