quotations about progress
We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started.
JANE ADDAMS
Democracy and Social Ethics
Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings
Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
SAMUEL SMILES
Self-Help
The forces of progress clash with those of reaction.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
The Story of the Malakand Field Force
The wheels of progress do not stop. The world advances toward and into a better life, and will advance until, leaving the hard, clumsy and jarring pavements of the marts of selfishness behind it, it will strike off joyously into the broad avenue of the millennium.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Gold-foil: Hammered from Popular Proverbs
Man is a progressive being, and every enterprise in which he engages should be carried forward in obedience to this law of his nature.
JAMES LYSANDER ENOS
attributed, Day's Collacon
One who accepts the general ideas of his time gets along smoothest, but he does the least for progress.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
Progress is the exploration of our own error.
JACOB BRONOWSKI
The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination