Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

Edgar Allan Poe

If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

Kofi Annan

Africans are making important progress on all fronts,

This is a milestone of the progress in this field.

Kim Gandy

A lot of strong women there. But sometimes it is a tough place to make progress on our issues.

There was no progress on any of them.

It's a totally different place. We are starting to see progress on several fronts.

Gertrude Stein

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.

Gertrude Stein

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

Herbert Spencer

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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.]

Jerry Greenfield

Business can be a source of progressive change.

Ernest Lawrence

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

Ernest Lawrence

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

Fidel Castro

The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

Helen Keller

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

Cat Stevens

All things can be forgiven if we can progress.

James Dean

If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.

Jacques Diouf

Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope

James Carroll

The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

Jennifer Granholm

If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

George William Curtis

Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.

George Sand

... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.

Jenny Shipley

The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin.

Jennifer Lopez

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.

Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car.

Francois Rabelais

Row on [whatever happens]. [Lat., Vogue la galere.]

George Santayana

The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.

G-Eazy

If you push yourself to stay hungry, you're always working towards at least taking steps forward. If you're taking steps forward, then you're making progress.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.