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Progress Quotes
"We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards."
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"You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us."
161
"Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall."
147
"Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress."
140
"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."
135
"Well, the important message that we've always carried to China is that we look forward to your progress and prosperity, we look forward to you playing a role in the progress and prosperity of this region and we look forward to stability in your relations with others."
130
"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."
86
"The Democratic Party is on the move across the country. Voters are responding to our message of progress and fiscal responsibility."
82
"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress."
74
"Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions."
73
"The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know."
70
"I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left."
67
"The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress."
62
"Progress is the attraction that moves humanity."
60
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
57
"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."
57
"Progress was all right. Only it went on too long."
55
"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."
54
"True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice."
54
"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."
53
"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 little."
53
"On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available."
52
"Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered."
52
"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder."
52
"There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly."
52
"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own."
51
"We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress."
51
"Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity."
48
"It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness."
47
"Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy with everything that happened with the parliamentary elections, and it was not exactly a perfect presidential election in Egypt."
47
"I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple."
46
"Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made."
46
"An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , purify itself of errors, and progress in general enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, the proper destination of which lies precisely in this progress and the descendants would be fully justified in rejecting those decrees as having been made in an unwarranted and malicious manner.."
46
"If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers."
46
"No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't."
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