Progress Quotes

"Technology is the accumulation of ideas."

Kevin Kelly

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

Kofi Annan

"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal."

Earl Nightingale

"Progress is often equal to the difference between mind and mindset."

N. R. Narayana Murthy

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."

Marie Curie

"Becoming is better than being."

Carol S. Dweck

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

"It never gets easier, you just go faster."

Greg LeMond

"Without education, wisdom was lost; without wisdom, morals were lost; without morals, development was lost; without development, wealth was lost. So much has happened through lack of education."

Jyotirao Phule

"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."

Arnold Toynbee

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."

Robert A. Heinlein

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

Max Planck

"Science is a cemetery of dead ideas."

Miguel de Unamuno

"No power is as costly as no power."

Homi J. Bhabha

"Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science."

James Clerk Maxwell

"Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world."

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."

John Dewey

"Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions."

Vera Rubin

"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat."

Dag Hammarskjöld

"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."

Joseph Joubert

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.”

“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”