Progress quotations

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◆ All censorships exist to prevent anyone 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 censorship.

- George Bernard Shaw99

◆ There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt99

◆ My two favourite 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 Golkin99

◆ But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the lifetime of one man, and thereby to make a period of time fruitless in the progress of mankind toward improvement, thus working to the disadvantage of posterity - that is absolutely forbidden. For himself (and only for a short time) a man may postpone enlightenment in what he ought to know, but to renounce it for posterity is to injure and trample on the rights of mankind.

- Immanuel Kant99

◆ It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero99

◆ This is what I believe to be the progress of a writer. You write 10 things, of which one of them will be great. You then write 11 things, of which two of them will be great. Then you write 12 things, of which four of them will be great. Then you write 13 things, of which eight of them will be great. Finally you write 14 things, of which 16 of those 14 things will be great. ?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

- Kurt Vonnegut99

◆ 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.

- H.G. Wells99

◆ We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, 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. Lewis99

◆ Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

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

- Thomas A. Edison99

◆ We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

- Alan Moore99

◆ The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness not to stop your progress.

- Steve Maraboli99

◆ All progress stalls until someone is willing to challenge the boundaries.

- Aroha Janet99

◆ No matter how many mistakes you've made, you're ahead of people who aren't trying.

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