75 Powerful and Inspiring Quotes on Progress

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Are you feeling stuck? Does it seem like you are not making progress in your life? These quotes on progress will help you put things into perspective and inspire you to move forward. All the greatest philosophers, inventors and inspirational authors are speaking to you on this page. These are some of the best quotes on progress, just because they are free please don’t take them for granted. Absorb the words of wisdom being shared and you will continue progressing.

Quotes on Progress 1-75

  1. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.  ―Benjamin Franklin
  2. 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.
  3. You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. Shirley Chisholm
  4. Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. ―W. E. B. Du Bois
  5. Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.  ―Kofi Annan
  6. Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.  ―John F. Kennedy (quotes on progress)
  7. 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
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  9. All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. ―Martin Luther King, Jr.
  10. These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a bipartisan spirit and with our international partners if we are going to achieve progress and peace now and for future generations. ―Susan Collins
  11. 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.
  12. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
    ― Frank Zappa
  13. The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country. ―Thomas Sowell (quotes on progress)
  14. 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
  15. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
  16. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.”
    ― Carl Sandburg
  17. Never confuse movement with action.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
  18. I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
  19. Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
    ― Robert Heinlein
  20. Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
    ― Rosa Luxemburg
  21. The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” (quotes on progress)
    ― Nikola Tesla
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  23. 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 too little.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
  24. No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
  25. To reach a port we must set sail –
    Sail, not tie at anchor
    Sail, not drift.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
  26. And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
  27. There is no progress or accomplishment without sacrifice.”
    ― Idowu Koyenikan
  28. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw
  29. A little progress every day adds up to big results.” ―Satya
  30. Progress is not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” Khalil Gibran

Quotes on Progress 30-60

  1. Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid.” Joyce Meyer
  2. 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.” (quotes on progress)
    ― Winston S. Churchill
  3. We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
    ― Alan Turing
  4. There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
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  6. At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.”
    ― Michelle Obama
  7. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” Frederick Douglass
  8. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw
  9. A little progress every day adds up to big results.” ―Satya
  10. Progress is not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” Khalil Gibran
  11. Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid.” Joyce Meyer
  12. Always be a work in progress.” ―Emily Lillian
  13. There are only two options: Make progress or make excuses.” Anonymous
  14. Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress. ―Mahatma Gandhi
  15. Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. ―George Orwell
  16. There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. ―George Orwell
  17. The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. ―Thomas Jefferson
  18. In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down. ―Franklin D. Roosevelt
  19. Slow, steady progress is better than daily excuses.” ―Robin Sharma
  20. Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.” Jim Rohn
  21. Work hard for you and your own goals. Progress will come.” ― Anonymous
  22. Failure is success in progress.” ―Albert Einstein
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  24. Make measurable progress in reasonable time.” ―Jim Rohn
  25. Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” ―Plato
  26. A lack of focus leads to a lack of progress. Focus. Grind. Grow.” Anonymous
  27. Whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” ―Martin Luther King
  28. Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” ―Frederick B. Wilcox
  29. All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” ―Michael John Bobak
  30. Small progress is still progress.” ―Anonymous
  31. If you want to experience significant progress toward your goal, you need to be intentional about the work you’re doing every day.” ―Anonymous
  32. Delay is the enemy of progress.” ― Eliot Spitzer
  33. If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.  ―Robert Kennedy
  34. All progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ―George Bernard Shaw
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  36. There are only two options: Make progress or make excuses.” Anonymous
  37. Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress. ―Mahatma Gandhi
  38. Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. ―George Orwell
  39. There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. ―George Orwell
  40. The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. ―Thomas Jefferson
  41. In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down. ―Franklin D. Roosevelt
  42. Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.”
    ― Alasdair Gray
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  44. The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness not to stop your progress.”
    ― Steve Maraboli
  45. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” Frank Zappa

So there you have it, have David Goggins’s invincible spirit and be a go getter like Lisa Nichols. Continue moving towards your dreams and you will achieve them. 

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