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Most Famous Progress Quotes of All Time!

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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

Quotes by Henry Miller

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

Quotes by Henry J. Kaiser

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

Quotes by Henry J. Kaiser

In the next four years, President Bush will continue to keep America safe, our enemies on the run, and our economic progress moving forward. Texas is the home of our President, and we will make sure that is true for...

Quotes by Henry Bonilla

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Quotes by Henry Adams

I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me.

Quotes by Heikki Kovalainen

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any...

Quotes by Helen Dunmore

Questioning someone who is acting as a lookout for a burglary might not result in an arrest, because there is not enough evidence of a crime in progress to support one, but that intervention will likely avert the break-in.

Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress.

Quotes by Hassanal Bolkiah

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Quotes by Havelock Ellis

Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.

Quotes by Harsha Bhogle

I want to keep working hard and looking to progress.

Quotes by Harry Kane

I think to progress in major tournaments and to be at your best, you need a big squad, and you need to rotate it.

Quotes by Harry Kane

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.

Quotes by Harold Washington

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

Quotes by Harold Washington

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

Quotes by Harold Wilson

Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

Quotes by Harmony Korine

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

Quotes by Harold Bloom

If Indians were not largehearted, they wouldn't have made so much of progress and delivered growth.

Quotes by Harbhajan Singh

I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.

Quotes by Hans Rosling

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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