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Most Famous Progress Quotes of All Time!

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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

Quotes by John Maynard Keynes

Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted.

Quotes by John Mackey

In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.

Quotes by John Linder

There are still forces in America that want to divide us along racial lines, religious lines, sex, class. But we've come too far; we've made too much progress to stop or to pull back. We must go forward. And I...

Quotes by John Lewis

While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent...

Quotes by John L. Lewis

Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles.

Quotes by John L. Phillips

All progress is experimental.

Quotes by John Jay Chapman

My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.

Quotes by John Hutton

No matter how the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, states are making progress in developing strategies to provide more access to quality health care coverage.

Quotes by John Hickenlooper

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Quotes by John F. Kennedy

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Quotes by John F. Kennedy

I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

Quotes by John Dramani Mahama

And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.

Quotes by John Dramani Mahama

We can't let 535 people continue to limit the progress of a nation of more than 300 million.

Quotes by John Delaney

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

Quotes by John Burns

With such irresistible evidence before us of the great and rapid progress of abolitionism without the slightest indication of abatement, he is blind who does not see, if the state of things which has caused it should be permitted to...

Quotes by John C. Calhoun

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

Quotes by John Bardeen

I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without...

Quotes by Johannes Rau

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

Quotes by Joe Lieberman

Technological unemployment is scary for those affected - but has always gone hand in hand with economic progress.

Quotes by Joe Lonsdale

Frequently Asked Questions

What do the "progress" quotes on this page focus on?
These quotes look at progress from several different angles - from a historical, high-cost view ("Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake") to political ambition and personal belief. It's not one narrow theme; it spans history, national politics, and personal conviction.
Does the page include quotes about political progress?
Yes. One quote is a politician's personal reflection on their father, "one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress." Another sample post shares a speaker's own critical assessment of how much progress was being made in Iraq at the time - that assessment is presented in the quote as the speaker's opinion, not as an established fact.
Is there a quote about bringing "progressive" issues to a national stage?
Yes, one sample quote comes from a speaker discussing progress and progressive issues they were tackling locally, in Miramar, with the stated ambition of taking those issues nationally - presented as that speaker's own political goal, not a neutral fact.
What's a well-known standalone line about progress from this collection?
One of the most quotable lines here is "Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake" - a stark way of framing how much progress has often cost throughout history.
Where can I find more quotes related to progress and change?
If you enjoyed these, you may also like our Change and New quotes pages, which explore related ideas about moving forward and starting fresh.

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