Progress Sayings and Quotes

For many of us, staying stagnant-whether in our personal or professional life, is not an option. We’re constantly on a journey to progress forward and improve. Get inspired to get ahead with the collection of quotes about progress below.

And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man. John Greenleaf Whittier
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or the woman's right to her soul. Emma Goldman
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. Wendell Phillips
Progress in the spiritual life comes from climbing a ladder of which the rungs are made alternately of belief and doubt. Edward Patey
The scientific and technological revolutions have been truly impressive. And we have wintessed awe-inspiring progress in both these spheres in the twentieth century. Wanda Sykes
There is in the universe a provision by which men are helped by the Divine Spirit. God inspires us to the Christian life and helps to the development of its graces. Henry Ward Beech
To regret one's own experience is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experience is to put a lie into the lips of one's own lie. It is no less than a denial of the soul. Oscar Wilde
So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled. Carl Gustav Jung
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or nation. Oscar Wilde
Progress is the mother of problems. G.K. Chesterton
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage. Herbert Hoover
We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can set limits to our onward march. John L. O'Sullivan
Change is not always progress. A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress. Henry Ford
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. Theodore Roosevelt
And the progress of the mind in science; is not very unlike the progress of science herself in experiment. Charles Caleb Colton
No man ever became in an instant the most base. The progress from virtue towards vice is gradual and insensible. Lippincott
As we progress along our path, our experiences help us to define our own character Richard Allan Krieger
The path of truth is the path of progress. Richard Allan Krieger
Never discourage any man who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education John F. Kennedy
The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development. Alfred North Whitehead
Human progress means the regained advancement of human values in households rich with parenthood, and sustained by ties with a cohesive community. Alfred Henry
Development is a universal process that is also your personal challenge. Alfred Henry
Progress therefore is not an accident, but a necessity. It is part of nature. Herbert Spencer
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change--to preserve change amid order. Alfred M. Whitehead
Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress. B.C. Forbes
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. Thomas Edison
Nothing in progress can rest on its original plan. We might as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. Edmund Burke
Man is not growing better. Man is not climbing upward. Instead of progress in man himself there is degeneracy.- Billy Graham
No matter how advanced its progress, any generation that neglects its spiritual and moral life is going to disintegrate. Billy Graham