Progress is the stride of God.

Victor Hugo

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

William James

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Henry Ford

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Joseph Joubert

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Franz Kafka

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Charles Baudelaire

Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.

Ludwig Quidde

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Theodore Roosevelt

Celebrate your progress, no matter how small. Each step forward is a testament to your dedication.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Benjamin Franklin

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Thomas Alva Edison

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Calvin Coolidge

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

Immanuel Kant

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

John Stuart Mill