Quotes about Progress
Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.
— Charles Spurgeon
The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
— George Bernard Shaw
Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.
— George Bernard Shaw
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
— Edmund Burke
I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.
— Albert Einstein
That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.
— Calvin Coolidge
Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.
— Charles Dickens
A man is worked on by what he works on.
— Frederick Douglass
It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.
— Henry Ford