In every passing minute, progress is taking place. You have no choice but to move forward and meet what the future holds. So let go of your old, inefficient ways and seek improvement that leads to development with these 164 progress quotes.
Progress Quotes
1. All progress occurs because people dare to be different. – Harry Millner
2. A little progress every day adds up to big results. – Satya
3. Progress is not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. – Khalil Gibran
4. Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity. – Arnold H. Glasgow
5. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. – Frank Zappa
6. Progress is a set of assumptions. – Edward Albee
7. Remember that progress is not linear either. Sometimes you make great progress for a while and then you slide back a little. That’s OK. Don’t give up. – Lee Labrada
8. There are only two options: make progress or make excuses. – Anonymous
9. Progress is man’s indifference to the lessons of history. – Len Deighton
10. Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. – Thor Heyerdahl
11. 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
12. Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. – C.S. Lewis
13. Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. – Winston S. Churchill
14. Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. – George Orwell
15. Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. – F.W. Dupee
16. A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress. – Bryant McGill
17. Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them. – Amin Maalouf
18. To progress is always to begin always to begin again. – Martin Luther
19. Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines. – Adrian Tchaikovsky
20. Our progress, the realization of our dreams, and the quality of our life depend directly on the level of our commitment to the process. – Dr Prem Jagyasi
21. Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. – Norbert Wiener
22. Progress is not accomplished in one stage. – Victor Hugo
23. We progress a step farther, in each tick of the clock. – Ronnie Cornelisz
24. It will be destructive at first, like all progress. Just as the industrial age ushered in two world wars. Just as Homo sapiens supplanted the Neanderthal. But would you turn back the clock on all that comes with it? Could you? Progress is inevitable. And it’s a force for good. – Blake Crouch
25. Progress is not gauged by improvement in the comfort of our situation. Progress happens when the situation is adverse and we remain normal. – Swami Mukundananda
26. Suffering drives progress. – The source of all suffering is the desire for a change in state. This is also the source of all progress. The desire to change your state is what powers you to take action. With craving, we are dissatisfied but driven. Without craving, we are satisfied but lack ambition. – James Clear
27. It’s better to move forward and make progress in anything rather than waiting for something which is going to happen in future because future is uncertain and waiting for this wll make you fall. So stop waiting and start doing. – Aayush Verma
28. I am still a work in progress but I am making progress. – Jeffrey G. Duarte
29. We must live by the fundamental, dialectical principle that progress comes only from struggling to resolve contradictions. – bell hooks
30. Progress is to respect what is present and vice versa, although it may not speak out. – Enock Maregesi
31. Even a pawn makes a move, sometimes two steps in the beginning. How small or limited it may be, it can never be overlooked. Remember, it is a pawn and only the pawn which gets promoted once it reaches the other side of the chessboard. If a pawn, saddened by its abilities, stops making any move, it can never evolve into something greater. We have to make moves, my friend, to progress. – Abhaidev
32. Incremental progress leads to long-lasting results. – Frank Sonnenberg
33. Science shows us that progress is beyond horizons, beyond the impossible; In a world full of possibilities, where the key lies in a source of clear water, the action to move them frees us from the cage of what keeps us hostage. – Alan Maiccon
34. We may think failure holds us back and hinders our progress. Actually, it helps us spring forward and accomplish more. – Alis Cerrahyan
35. Progress requires sacrifice of security. And the only reason, humanity keeps on progressing, despite the fact that most of the human population do not sacrifice their security, is that, on behalf of the whole humanity, a handful of bravehearts do all the sacrificing and pain- bearing, yet people can’t manage to comprehend that we couldn’t have become the masters of this planet by living a comfortable and secure life. To have great progress, one must sacrifice small pleasures. – Abhijit Naskar
36. Comfort zones are overrated. When you embrace the unfamiliar and uncomfortable in all areas of life, your progress will start soaring. – Francis Shenstone
37. The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. – Albert Camus
38. Intellectual and moral progress is not a matter of getting closer to an antecedent goal but of surpassing the past. – Rorty Richard
39. When taken in the right direction, even a step that is only half a centimeter long is progress. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
40. Progress is a river. It cannot be called back once it leaps its banks. – Leigh Bardugo
41. Forward is the posture of those who endeavor. – Scott Perry
42. When it comes to progress, the process of discovering which incentives will help you move forward is a large part of the equation. – Oscar Auliq-Ice
43. Catering to the needs that nourish your being allows the change to get you the desired progress. – Sachin Kumar Puli
44. A single opinion is comfortable. Comfort is hostile to change. Progress is uncomfortable because it changes the comfort. – Thomas Vato
45. Progress might be inevitable, but there was no reason they should knuckle under without a fight. – Luis Alberto Urrea
46. The aim is progress, not perfection. Try to be better today than yesterday. – Salma Farook
47. Progress should be the Product of the Process – Yohann Dafeu
48. All progress must, and can only be, based on truth: the way it is. – Joseph Rain
49. Do not impress others at the expense of your progress. – Gift Gugu Mona
50. The only way to make progress is to start. – Avina Celeste
51. Passionately pursue progress over perfection! – Farshad Asl
52. We are not helpless. We all have the ability to make this world a better place. We can start with small steps, one day at a time. – Wayne Gerard Trotman
53. You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. – Shirley Chisholm
54. Make measurable progress in reasonable time. – Jim Rohn
55. Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience – by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. – Herbert Read
56. All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler
57. The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires. – Friedrich Nietzsche
58. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw
59. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass
60. If we move, we move. – Courtney C. Stevens
61. Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. – Plato
62. Some quit due to slow progress. Never grasping the fact that slow progress is progress. – Jeff Olson
63. If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress. – Barack Obama
64. There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. – Ronald Reagan
65. Change is inevitable, change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that’s when it’s progress. – Doug Baldwin
66. Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. – Thomas A. Edison
67. Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking. – Andre Geim
68. Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. – Michael S. Hart
69. Show people a positive path that enables them to make progress on their own terms. Give them options and alternatives that empower them. – Mark Goulston
70. Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening. – Nipsey Hussle
71. A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion. – Richard E. Byrd
72. If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined. – Paul J. Meyer
73. I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. – Marie Curie
74. Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try. – Henry Spencer
75. The power to question is the basis of all human progress. – Indira Gandhi
76. Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. – Wendell Phillips
77. Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. – Robert Kennedy
78. Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries. – Rita Levi-Montalcini
79. We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests. – Sheryl Sandberg
80. When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they’re doing. – Daniel H. Pink
81. Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere. – Morihei Ueshiba
82. One day’s delay is another day’s lack of progress. – Stuart Bowen
83. True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice. – Saint Francis de Sales
84. Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
85. I think that it’s when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person, and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn’t look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well. – John McAfee
86. Progress is the attraction that moves humanity. – Marcus Garvey
87. Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress. – Li Keqiang
88. Progress takes time and discipline. – Ronnie Coleman
89. Whether you want to exercise more often, or you’re hoping to become debt-free, real change happens in stages. Slow and steady progress is great – as long as you’re taking steps in the right direction. – Amy Morin
90. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. – Henry Miller
91. You have to go to your limit to progress. – James Rodriguez
92. He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. – Harold Wilson
93. The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education. – George Eastman
94. The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. – William Gilmore Simms
95. Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. – Alfred North Whitehead
96. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. – Samuel Johnson
97. Nothing recedes like progress. – e. e. cummings
98. The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. – Elbert Hubbard
99. We’re all works of art in progress. – Carmen Dell’Orefice
100. If you’re going to worry about what people say, you’re never going to make any progress. – Joseph Murray
101. Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. – Oscar Wilde
102. Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened. – James E. Faust
103. Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. – Franz Kafka
104. Problems are the price of progress. Don’t bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me. – Charles Kettering
105. Progress, this great heresy of decay. – Charles Baudelaire
106. People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t. – Alice Walker
107. You can’t sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces. – Henry J. Kaiser
108. The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress. – Charles Erwin Wilson
109. And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don’t. – Reid Hoffman
110. To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind. – Agnes Martin
111. Part of life is understanding that real change and progress comes with dedicated perseverance but also realizing that challenges, obstacles and roadblocks will appear from time to time. – Robert Rivers
112. Actively recognizing progress towards your goal will ultimately end up inspiring you and have you pushing even harder. – Denzel J. Wellington
113. Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation. – William Arthur Ward
114. Time and again, I’ve seen people make the most progress when they combine their knowledge of themselves with real world actions. – Alison Cardy
115. Life is a progress, and not a station. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
116. Just as the tension of the wind against the sail causes the sailboat to move, so stress is necessary for us to progress through life. – Vivian Eisenecher
117. Doubt increases with inaction. Clarity reveals itself in momentum. Growth comes from progress. For all these reasons, BEGIN. – Brendon Burchard
118. When you set out to accomplish something, recognize that slow, steady progress over time can lead to big success. – Erica Hudson
119. A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road. – Thomas Carlyle
120. Challenges, failures, defeats and ultimately, progress, are what make your life worthwhile. – Maxime Lagace
121. One small step for man : one giant leap for mankind. – Neil Armstrong
122. All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. – Adlai Stevenson
123. It’s the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you’re mad, then dangerous, then there’s a pause and then you can’t find anyone who disagrees with you. – Tony Benn
124. History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. – Gerald R. Ford
125. In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources. – Alexander Hamilton
126. All rising to great place is by a winding stair. – John Quincy Adams
127. The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam today. – Lewis Carroll
128. Progress was all right. Only it went on too long. – James Thurber
129. The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. – Victor Hugo
130. If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. – Epictetus
131. Progress is the law of life, man is not man as yet. – Robert Browning
132. People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. – Dale Turner
133. Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better.You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That’s perfectionism. That’s what makes you progress in life. – Eric Cantona
134. If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. – Calvin Coolidge
135. The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress. – Sydney J. Harris
136. There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. – Robert Louis Stevenson
137. With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system. – Herbert Hoover
138. What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. – Henry Havelock Ellis
139. Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. – Ellen Terry
140. 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. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
141. It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed. – Derrick Bell
142. Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
143. Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it. – George Santayana
144. The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
145. And from the discontent of man the world’s best progress springs. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
146. The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. – Gaston Bachelard
147. There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures. – J. G. Holland
148. All progress is experimental. – John Chapman
149. Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. – Bruce Barton
150. It is not strange… to mistake change for progress. – Millard Fillmore
151. Progress first requires a step to be taken. – Chase S.M. Neill
152. Progress in human affairs, whether in science or in history or in society, has come mainly through the bold readiness of human beings not to confine themselves to seeking piecemeal improvements in the way things are done, but to present fundamental challenges in the name of reason to the current way of doing things and to the avowed or hidden assumptions on which it rests. – Edward Hallett Carr
153. This is how we progress as humans. We went from horseless carriages to self-driving, self-organizing transport in a hundred and fifty years. We went from powered flight to putting a man on the moon in sixty years. We’ve always progressed in leaps and bounds. It is our ability, no, our duty, to do what is efficient, and to do what is best, to evolve not just our vehicles and our cities and our homes, but also the social structures that hold us back. – Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
154. Success may require a lot of days. But progress only requires one. – T. Jay Taylor
155. Progress is not alone a matter of technology. – C. Drying
156. Life is all about progress and movements, keep it moving. – Hopal Green
157. Progressing at a snail’s pace is still progress, and slow progress is better than no progress. Never be stagnant, and never give up. – Richelle E. Goodrich
158. People will oppose your progress. They will remind you of your past failures, belittle you, etc. The only way to stand against such opposition and belittling is to know the reason for your existence. – D.S Mashego
159. Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity. – Pearl Zhu
160. The bigger the mess, the greater the progress. – Richie Norton
161. Keep planting new seeds until your mind becomes the earth that gives birth to new worlds. – Curtis Tyrone Jones
162. Progress is a collection of expectations set and met. – Ashlecka Aumrivani
163. Progress means advancement in the path of upliftment – in the path of enlightenment – in the path of humanitarian glory. – Abhijit Naskar
164. One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward. – Robert Pirsig