Progress
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Butler, Samuel
Climb mountains to see lowlands.
- Chinese Proverb
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
- Confucius
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
- Goethe, Johann Von
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge,virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.
- Hitopadesa, The
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
- Hubbard, Elbert
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.
- Lowell, James Russell
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
- Stevenson, Adlai
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
- Thurber, James
