Progress Quotes

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  If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Change, Moving On

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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• If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

  David Rockefeller

  Mother, Father, Invention

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• This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  People, Ease, World

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• The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Ideas, Perfect, Joy

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.85, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivation, Powerful, Causes

  Twitter post from Mar 19, 2016

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• A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Commitment, Half, Volition

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• Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

  Ellen Terry

  Conceited, Obstacles, Conceit

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Teaching, People, Common

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1962). “Economic development”

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• Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows.

  House Peters, Jr.

  Fate, Democracy, Looks

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• A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, because people see things differently

  Richard Posner

  Diversity, People, Achievement

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• Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Motivation, Ideas, Fundamentals

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.142, Open Road Media

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  Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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

  Alan Sugar

  Wisdom, Entrepreneur, Intelligence

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• There are two rules for achieving anything. Rule No. 1: Get started. Rule No. 2: Keep going.

  E. Howard Hunt

  Two, Achieve, Keep Going

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• You cannot make progress without making decisions.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Decisions You Make, Decisions Made

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 10, 2017

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• Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

  "Everybody's political what's what?" by George Bernard Shaw, Chapter XXXVII, (p. 330), 1944.

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• Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational, Sports, Workout

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  Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

  Mia Hamm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Real, Made

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Air, Society

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.137

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• True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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• It's not about success, it's about progress.

  Tony Robbins

  About Success

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• Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taken, Gains, Granted

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• All progress is experimental.

  John Jay Chapman

  Work

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

  Harold Wilson

  Change, Life Changing, Teaching

  Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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