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
- Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. ―Benjamin Franklin
- 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.
- You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. Shirley Chisholm
- Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. ―W. E. B. Du Bois
- Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. ―Kofi Annan
- 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)
- 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
- All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. ―Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 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
- 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.
- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa - 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)
- 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
- 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 - I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg - Never confuse movement with action.”
― Ernest Hemingway - I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
― Abraham Lincoln - Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
― Robert Heinlein - Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
― Rosa Luxemburg - 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 
- 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 - 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 - To reach a port we must set sail –
Sail, not tie at anchor
Sail, not drift.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt - And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano - There is no progress or accomplishment without sacrifice.”
― Idowu Koyenikan - Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw
- A little progress every day adds up to big results.” ―Satya
- Progress is not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” Khalil Gibran
Quotes on Progress 30-60
- Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid.” Joyce Meyer
- 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 - We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
― Alan Turing - There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt 
- At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.”
― Michelle Obama - “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” Frederick Douglass
- Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw
- A little progress every day adds up to big results.” ―Satya
- Progress is not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” Khalil Gibran
- Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid.” Joyce Meyer
- Always be a work in progress.” ―Emily Lillian
- There are only two options: Make progress or make excuses.” ―Anonymous
- Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress. ―Mahatma Gandhi
- Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. ―George Orwell
- 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
- The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. ―Thomas Jefferson
- In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down. ―Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Slow, steady progress is better than daily excuses.” ―Robin Sharma
- Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.” ―Jim Rohn
- Work hard for you and your own goals. Progress will come.” ― Anonymous
- Failure is success in progress.” ―Albert Einstein
- Make measurable progress in reasonable time.” ―Jim Rohn
- Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” ―Plato
- A lack of focus leads to a lack of progress. Focus. Grind. Grow.” ―Anonymous
- Whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” ―Martin Luther King
- Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” ―Frederick B. Wilcox
- All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” ―Michael John Bobak
- Small progress is still progress.” ―Anonymous
- If you want to experience significant progress toward your goal, you need to be intentional about the work you’re doing every day.” ―Anonymous
- Delay is the enemy of progress.” ― Eliot Spitzer
- If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. ―Robert Kennedy
- All progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ―George Bernard Shaw
- There are only two options: Make progress or make excuses.” ―Anonymous
- Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress. ―Mahatma Gandhi
- Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. ―George Orwell
- 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
- The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. ―Thomas Jefferson
- In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down. ―Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.”
― Alasdair Gray 
- The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness not to stop your progress.”
― Steve Maraboli - 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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