If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

People aren’t carved out of marble. We’re all works in progress. The trick is to define ourselves, rather than let outside influences define us.

Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult

It is supposed that there has been progress in the science of textual criticism, and the most frivolous pretender has learned to talk superciliously about “the old unscientific days”. The old unscientific days are everlasting; they are here and now; they are renewed perennially by the ear which takes formulas in, and the tongue which gives them out again, and the mind which meanwhile is empty of reflexion and stuffed with self-complacency.

Diversity is not just a buzzword; it’s the key to innovation and progress.

The truth is not always comfortable, but it is necessary for progress.

Change is the catalyst for growth and progress. The greatest transformations often come from the most unlikely circumstances.

I have made a lot of progress, above all in speed, reflexes, and experience.

I think to progress in major tournaments and to be at your best, you need a big squad, and you need to rotate it.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we’re making progress; but Huey’s chair’s empty.

Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.

Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything

Change is not progress.

Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

To grow and still to grow, that is the law of life. What other law can there be?

We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.

Next time, we fail better.

am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

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

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work

People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward

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

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

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forwardsiscou

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.

Life is short and progress is slow.

I’ve never made a mistake. I’ve only learned from experience

Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something

There’s a way to do it better – find it

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work

Learn from it and let it go

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Favor comes because, for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress, some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment

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.

In our personal ambitions, we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up, or else all go down as one people.

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.

Marathon is life. And life is where you progress.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

True progress happens slowly. We must be patient.

Without death, there would be very little progress.

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

To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.

You can make excuses, or you can make progress. You choose.

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results – the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been – and finally – an important thing – the intelligence to interpret the results.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.

If you push yourself to stay hungry, you’re always working towards at least taking steps forward. If you’re taking steps forward, then you’re making progress.

Some of the generals are saying, ‘We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.’ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of courage. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but in expressing them correctly; and we can now see that it is biologically undeniable that unless we harness passion to the service of spirit there can be no progress. Sooner or later, then, and in spite of all our incredulity, the world will take this step – because the greater truth always prevails and the greater good emerges in the end.

Progress is the mother of all problems.

Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.

If ‘pro’ is the opposite of ‘con’ what is the opposite of ‘progress’?

Comfort is the enemy of progress.

Doubt discovers difficulties which it never solves; it creates hesitancy, despondency, despair. Its progress is the decay of comfort, the death of peace. “Believe!” is the word which speaks life into a man, but doubt nails down his coffin.

The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution, were not mischievous men but misinformed men.

Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievement and progress. It is both the key and the quest that advances mankind. The search for knowledge is what brought men to the moon; but it took knowledge already acquired to make it possible to get there.

How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of the Revolutionary fathers

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of Freedom.

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

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

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

You must have a sincere and burning desire to achieve what you dream, dedicate yourself to making progress, and take control of your circumstances to change your body.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

I came from the bottom, now I’m on top.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress.

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

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

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