Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities. — Susan Rice
People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces -- in nature, in society, in man himself. — Leon Trotsky
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. — Leon Trotsky
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter. — Nadine Gordimer
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. — Samuel Smiles
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. — Thor Heyerdahl
Time and progress are synonymous terms--nothing can stop either. Truth will prevail and that is why I know that my teachings will reach the masses and finally be adopted as universal. — Joseph Pilates
Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex. — Karl Marx
Change is automatic. Progress is not. — Tony Robbins
The best road to progress is freedom's road. — John F. Kennedy
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. — Confucius
Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies. — Robert Kennedy
Top 10 Human Progress Quotes
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left. — Aldous Huxley
Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others. — Christopher Columbus
The power to question is the basis of all human progress. — Indira Gandhi
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. — Emmeline Pankhurst
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. — Harold Wilson
Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line. — Madame de Stael
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
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. — Edward De Bono
Innovation is an important force driving human progress. — Xi Jinping
All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. — H. L. Mencken
Human Progress Image Quotes
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
How's Life Quotes
Crazy how you gotta wait until it's dark out to see who really with you. — Drake
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Failing for Success — Thomas A. Edison
Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving. — Mother Teresa
I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but that's just me. That's how I live my life. — CM Punk
Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes. — Billy Graham
A little progress each day adds up to bg results.
Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives. — Henri Nouwen
As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know? — Lemmy Kilmister
I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little. — Jerry Garcia
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. — Haruki Murakami
Life Is Progress Quotes
Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the givers of life — Fela Kuti
Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep. — Ajahn Brahm
Progression, in my opinion, is often identifying shortcomings - whether it's views or the things you're doing in your life, your relationships - and trying to find the places where you improve on those. — Trevor Noah
Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.
Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior. — H. P. Blavatsky
Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change. — Daniel Gilbert
Pick the right habits and progress is easy. Pick the wrong habit and life is a struggle. — James Clear
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress. You're still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.
To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life. — Leo Tolstoy
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. — Kenichi Ohmae
I urge you to accept the machines as part of our lives and commit to making life better because of their presence. AI is coming. We can prevent it, but we can make sure it's put on the right path in its infancy. — Mo Gawdat
What Is Humanity Quotes
Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child. — Maria Montessori
What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love. — Henri Nouwen
Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it. — Amartya Sen
Analyze your mistakes. You've already paid the tuition, you might as well get the lesson.
Most human behavior is controlled by images. Image is a factor in how people look at themselves and what they use to reflect themselves. The control of images is a major factor in world power. — John Henrik Clarke
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times. — Mark Twain
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. — Alan Watts
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. — Voltaire
No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are. — Paulo Freire
Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity. — Anton Chekhov
Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement. — Pete Edochie
Social Progress Quotes
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. — John Dewey
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated — Haile Selassie
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. — Earl Warren
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing. — Booker T. Washington
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress. — Charles Fourier
National security is vital for economic and social progress. — Paul Kagame
Capitalism, and its relentless march towards progress, allowed many to win. — Jeff Booth
Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war. — Sun Yat-sen
But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time. — Bulent Ecevit
Economic Progress Quotes
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster. — Douglas MacArthur
Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power. — Aldous Huxley
I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns. — Jeff Bingaman
Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic sense, strengthens democracy, and enables long-term sustainable progress. — Helen Clark
We who live in free market societies believe that growth and prosperity, and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down. — Ronald Reagan
Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. — John Clapham
Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses. — Ludwig von Mises
Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil. — Joseph Schumpeter
Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer. — Paul Samuelson
A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, because people see things differently — Richard Posner
Technological Progress Quotes
All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction. — Konrad Lorenz
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. — Alvin Toffler
Technology is not only the thing that moves the human race forward, but it’s the only thing that ever has. Without technology, we’re just monkeys playing in the dirt. — Naval Ravikant
When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution...Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress. — Paul Virilio
Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams. — Manmohan Singh
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology. — Robert E. Kahn
Bitcoin is digital gold – growing harder, smarter, faster, & stronger due to the relentless progression of technology. — Michael Saylor
We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using bridges not built by nature.... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics-back to the jungle. — Max Frisch
It's technology progress. It's inevitable. Technology is neither good nor bad. We just have to make them responsibly. — Changpeng Zhao
Scientific Progress Quotes
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language. — Roman Jakobson
Science is based on evidence, not politics. In science knowing is always preferable to not knowing. But today in academia, progressive ideology trumps scientific facts. — Gad Saad
Just because we are not ready for scientific progress does not mean it won't happen. — Jennifer Doudna
Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence. — Paul Dirac
To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot. — Albert Einstein
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research. — Albert Einstein
Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all. — Linus Pauling
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..." — Carl Sagan
Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically. — John Paul VI
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened. — Madame de Stael
Human Development Quotes
Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical. — Amartya Sen
The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction. — Maria Montessori
I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity. — Mary Mcleod Bethune
Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment — David Attenborough
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. — Malcolm Muggeridge
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves. — Rachel Carson
Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. — Friedrich Frobel
Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people. The goal is material, cultural and spiritual fulfilment for the people. The human factor is of supreme value in development. — Rajiv Gandhi
A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable — Thabo Mbeki
Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education. — Rudolf Steiner
Spiritual Progress Quotes
Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success. — Haile Selassie
The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection. — Pope Gregory I
AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress. — Bill W.
Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ. — J. D. Greear
You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it. — Meister Eckhart
The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble. — John Calvin
By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress. — Christopher Isherwood
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants. — Mahatma Gandhi
Progress Of Society Quotes
A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction. — Bobby Seale
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. — Ayn Rand
In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself. — Vartan Gregorian
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. — Liu Xiaobo
In order to grow in grace, we must be much alone. It is not in society that the soul grows most vigorously. In one single quiet hour of prayer it will often make more progress than in days of company with others. It is in the desert that the dew falls freshest and the air its purest. — Horatius Bonar
Recognizing our responsibilities as industrialists, we will devote ourselves to the progress and development of society and the well-being of people through our business activities, thereby enhancing the quality of life throughout the world. — Konosuke Matsushita
The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them. — Ivan Illich
Kindness and a good heart are the foundation for success in this life, progress on the spiritual path, and the fulfillment of our aspirations. Our need for them is not limited to any specific time, place, society, or culture. — Dalai Lama
Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind. — Francis Bacon
Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications. — Mary Douglas
Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace — Kofi Annan
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. — Anthony De Mello
Second, and relatedly, science progresses by improved instrumentation, by better recordkeeping. Star charts enabled celestial navigation. Johann Balmer’s documentation of the exact spacing of hydrogen’s emission spectra led to quantum mechanics. Gregor Mendel’s careful counting of pea plants led to modern genetics. Things we counted as simply beyond human ken – the stars, the atom, the genome – became things humans can comprehend by simply counting. — Balaji Srinivasan
I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism. — Bobby Seale
Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also. — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited advice on this occasion, it would be that you, irrespective of your age, should place human solidarity, the concern for the other, at the centre of the values by which you live. — Nelson Mandela
Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred. — Daniel De Leon
It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds. — Anna Pavlova
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. — Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams
Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress. — Theodore Levitt
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. — Tennessee Williams
Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has led to democracy, human rights, and the protection of the environment. Humanists make no apologies for this. Humanists twist no biblical doctrine to justify such actions. — Fred Edwords
Openness is the sure way for realising human prosperity and progress. — Xi Jinping
While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who Chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a Single day. — Robert E. Lee
By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have become what we think of as machines today, but rather machines will have progressed to be like humans and beyond. Technology will be the metaphorical opposable thumb that enables our next step in evolution. — Ray Kurzweil
These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion as if this religion were not the work of God but of man, or some kind of philosophical discovery susceptible of perfection by human efforts. — Pope Pius IX
Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must come. We are working for the ballot as a matter of justice and as a step for human betterment. — Carrie Chapman Catt
The impulse of humanity toward social progress is like the movement in the currents of a great water system, from myriad sources and under myriad circumstances and conditions, beating onward, ever onward toward its eternity, the Ocean. — Anna Julia Cooper
It is not that Covid is going to impede the progress of humanity. It is not as much a changing event as it was being predicted, according to me. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
There are no limits to growth and human progress
when men and women are free to follow their dreams. — Ronald Reagan
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.
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case. — Emmeline Pankhurst
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves. — Kahlil Gibran
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. — Barack Obama
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