The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master.

We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we've made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond.

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

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

New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.

Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.

We are making tremendous progress that ISIS really does present to the homeland and to other homelands of allies around the world.

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.

The winger resembles Mother Brown, running with a high knee-lift and sometimes not progressing far from the spot where he started.

She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done.

There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.]

Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress.

These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

We can not imitate great souls. However to study, analyse and imbibe the principles they teach and embody, is the path of progress.

Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

I didn't take a job on Fox News because I'm interested in progress. I'm interested in shouting and pointing and simplifying things!

Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go forward.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don't be afraid of innovation. Don't be afraid of ideas that are not your own.

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.

An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress

Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.

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