Great Throughts Treasury

"Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis." - Henry Ford

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." -

"Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress." - George Smith Houston

"For everything there is a time, so there comes a time for the unfolding of the soul - but the period of that development depends upon the speed of the progress man makes through life." - Inayat Khan, aka Hazrat Inayat Khan, fully Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Progress is life, standing still is death." - Inayat Khan, aka Hazrat Inayat Khan, fully Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Throughout human history, progress has come through the men and women who dared to challenge the precepts and dogmas that curtailed freedoms. Freethinking (which includes skepticism, rationalism, unbelief, atheism, agnosticism, humanism and so forth) has made great and lasting contributions to human freedom, human rights, and human equality." - Gerald Alexander Larue

"All progress occurs because people dare to be different." - Harry Millner

"All the progress humanity has made appears to be endangered by the very technological skills that humans have achieved. We live in an age in which the evils that humans inflict on others have reached unparalleled extremes of barbarism." - P. D. Premasiri, fully Pahalawattage Don Premasiri

"Liberalism was never a straight line to progress. Yet, every step of the way it is liberalism that is open to the human possibility, believing as it does in this invariable moral sense, turning the "ought" into the "is" for all of humanity. Human freedom and dignity can be more than a dream for the few." - Marcus G. Raskin

"Progress always involves risk. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first." - Frederick B. Wilcox

"Without deviation, progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa, born Frank Vincent Zappa

"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions." - Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"Progress is what happens when inevitability yields to necessity. And it is an article of the democratic faith that progress is a basic law of life." - Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions." -

"Progress is what happens when inevitability yields to necessity. And it is an article of the democratic faith that progress is a basic law of life." -

"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions." -

"Progress is what happens when inevitability yields to necessity. And it is an article of the democratic faith that progress is a basic law of life." -

"Industrialism is the systematic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation." -

"Industrialism is the systematic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation." -

"Industrialism is the systematic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation." -

"Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas." - Alfred North Whitehead

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change and order." - Alfred North Whitehead

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order." - Alfred North Whitehead

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order." - Alfred North Whitehead

"Man's "progress' is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress." - Anwar Sadat, fully Muhammad Anwar El Sadat

"The aim, and test, of progress under a truly Christian dispensation on Earth would not lie in the field of mundane social life; the field would be the spiritual life of individual souls in their passage through this earthly life from birth into this world to death out of it." - Arnold J. Toynbee, fully Arnold Joseph Toynbee

"The regular social progress though which a growing society advances from one stage in its growth to another is a compound movement in which a creative individual or minority first withdraws from the common life of the society, then works out, in seclusion, a solution for some problem with which the society as a whole is confronted, and finally re-enters into communion with the rest of society in order to help it forward on its road by imparting to it the results of the creative work which the temporarily secluded individual or minority has accomplished during the interval between withdrawal and return." - Arnold J. Toynbee, fully Arnold Joseph Toynbee

"The widespread modern rejection of ritual in religion is depriving people of powerful aids for spiritual development and for defense against evil... Action cannot lead beyond action, and therefore no ritual can produce Liberation... But there are many who do not specifically seek Liberation but simply greater purity, greater devotion, general spiritual betterment, or who seek Liberation as the still unseen goal of a winding path; and it is for such as these that the appropriate ritual would be a powerful armament for progress and defense." - Arthur W Osborn

"Behold the turtle, who makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - Author Unknown NULL

"All progress requires change but all change is not progress." - Author Unknown NULL

"Happiness is the engine of progress. All progress starts with dissatisfaction." - Author Unknown NULL

"There can be change without progress, but not progress without change." - Author Unknown NULL

"Unless the effectiveness of our learning is greater than the nature of change is unlikely to be equated with progress." - Author Unknown NULL

"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of the tribe." - Ayn Rand, born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum

"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, born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum

"Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma." - Benjamin De Casseres

"We are not indebted to the Reason of man for any of the great achievements which are the landmarks of human action and human progress… Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination." - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

"Men sometimes speak as though the progress of science must necessarily be a boon to mankind, but that, I fear, is one of the comfortable nineteenth century delusions which our more disillusioned age must discard." - Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell

"The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress." - Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell

"'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy." - Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell

"The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress." - Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell

"Change is one thing, progress is another. "Change" is scientific, "progress" is ethical; change is indisputable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy." - Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell

"The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones." - Blaise Pascal

"Monotheism, the supreme importance of perfectibility in this sad, sub-lunar world, the refusal to be bullied by superior force, the right to persist as a minority - these are the leading elements in the Jewish contribution to human progress." - Chaim Weizmann, fully Chaim Azirel Weizmann

"Intercourse is the soul of progress." - Charles Buxton

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - Charles Caleb Colton

"It is hard to find a man who has studied for three years without making some progress in virtue." - Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL

"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned" - Dag Hammarskjöld

"Keep your mind open to change at all time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress." - Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey