Progress proverbs

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◆ Never confuse movement with action.

- Ernest Hemingway99

◆ I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

- Abraham Lincoln99

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

- Robert A. Heinlein99

◆ I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

- Carl Sandburg99

◆ ...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness. In a moment the fruits of patient toil, the prospects of material prosperity, the fear of death itself, are flung aside. The more emotional Pathans are powerless to resist. All rational considerations are forgotten. Seizing their weapons, they become Ghazis—as dangerous and as sensible as mad dogs: fit only to be treated as such. While the more generous spirits among the tribesmen become convulsed in an ecstasy of religious bloodthirstiness, poorer and more material souls derive additional impulses from the influence of others, the hopes of plunder and the joy of fighting. Thus whole nations are roused to arms. Thus the Turks repel their enemies, the Arabs of the Soudan break the British squares, and the rising on the Indian frontier spreads far and wide. In each case civilisation is confronted with militant Mahommedanism. The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. The religion of blood and war is face to face with that of peace.

- Winston Churchill99

◆ The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

- Jim Morrison99

◆ 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. Roosevelt99

◆ No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

- Sigmund Freud99

◆ The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

- Nikola Tesla99

◆ Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

- Rosa Luxemburg99

◆ The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.

- Anderson Cooper99

◆ Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

- Winston Churchill99

◆ The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt99

◆ Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

◆ ...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included).

- Karl Marx99