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Most Famous Progress Quotes of All Time!

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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.

Quotes by Gavin Newsom

Sometimes when you're at a club like Chelsea you feel sorry when you see a player move on, because naturally some progress and some don't. You don't hear about the ones that don't.

Quotes by Gary Cahill

Work hard at your game and then you will progress.

Quotes by Gary Cahill

I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

Quotes by Garth Nix

A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

Quotes by Gale Anne Hurd

The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.

Quotes by Gabriel Lippmann

Life is short and progress is slow.

Quotes by Gabriel Lippmann

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Quotes by Frederick Douglass

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Quotes by Franz Grillparzer

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Quotes by Franz Grillparzer

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Quotes by Franz Kafka

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Without deviation progress is not possible.

Frank Zappa

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Quotes by Frank Moore Colby

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

Quotes by Frank Knox

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Quotes by Frank Herbert

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

Quotes by Frank B. Kellogg

Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity.

Quotes by Francois Englert

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

Quotes by Frances Perkins

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really...

Quotes by Frances E. Willard

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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