Let’s move forward, because things have improved and can still get better. Here are some proverbs and quotes about progress.
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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.Samuel Johnson
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.Arthur C. Clarke
Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.James Cook
But it’s in the nature of progress that it erases its tracks, and its champions fixate on the remaining injustices and forget how far we have come.Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking about them.Alfred North Whitehead
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.Oscar Wilde
Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.John Clapham
Everything that is not forbidden by laws of nature is achievable, given the right knowledge.David Deutsch
For all their foolishness, modern societies have been getting smarter, and all things being equal, a smarter world is a less violent world.Steven Pinker
Goals help you channel your energy into action.Les Brown
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.Mahatma Gandhi
Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.Tony Blair
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.Tom Robbins
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.Marie Curie
Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.Lauren Myracle
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.Isaac Newton
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.Frederick Douglass
If you had to choose a moment in history to be born, and you did not know ahead of time who you would be -- you didn't know whether you were going to be born into a wealthy family or a poor family, what country you'd be born, whether you were going to be a man or a woman -- if you had to choose blindly what moment you'd want to be born you'd choose now.Barack Obama
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.George Bernard Shaw
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.Mahatma Gandhi
In the future today's futurologists will look silly.(unknown author)
One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.John F. Kennedy
Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.Frederick B. Wilcox
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.Robert Kennedy
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.George Bernard Shaw
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.Herbert Read
PROGRESS. The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.H.L. Mencken
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.William Howard Taft
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.Aldous Huxley
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.Albert Einstein
The best road to progress is freedom's road.John F. Kennedy
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.Gaston Bachelard
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.George Bernard Shaw
The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.Arnold Schwarzenegger
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.Indira Gandhi
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 little.Franklin D. Roosevelt
The thinkers of the Enlightenment sought a new understanding of the human condition. The era was a cornucopia of ideas, some of them contradictory, but four themes tie them together: reason, science, humanism, and progress.Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.Victor Hugo
Things can be both bad and better.Hans Rosling
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.Saint Francis of Assisi
We are, I think, in the right road of improvement, for we are making experiments.Benjamin Franklin
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.Havelock Ellis
Where there's a will, there's a way.If you really want something to be done, it can be done.
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.Frank Zappa
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.Rabindranath Tagore
You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.Michelle Obama
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