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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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"Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall."
41
"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."
37
"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress."
30
"Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions."
29
"Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress."
26
"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."
23
"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."
19
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
14
"The Democratic Party is on the move across the country. Voters are responding to our message of progress and fiscal responsibility."
13
"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."
12
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
10
"I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left."
10
"I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment."
10
"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."
9
"Progress is the attraction that moves humanity."
9
"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."
9
"Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity."
8
"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
8
"In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am."
8
"The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress."
8
"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."
8
"One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either."
7
"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."
7
"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century."
7
"In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent."
7
"We can create a different future - one simple, beautifully mundane, daily decision at a time."
6
"In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq."
6
"We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress."
5
"Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico to help curb the problem from the south."
5
"Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in."
5
"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."
5
"The responsibility to shape the destiny of a nation rests on the shoulders of its citizens; each one contributing to the collective progress."
5
"When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?"
5
"Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress."
5
"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."
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