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Progress Quotes


"What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time."


"I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense."


"Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms."


"A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits."


"The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other."


"Progress means advancement in the path of upliftment " in the path of enlightenment " in the path of humanitarian glory."


"We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die."



"Your daily product determines how far you go."


"Don't say, "the sky is my limit", say, "I progress ad infinitum."


"Progress begins when you liberate your mind from the shackles of your ingrained tendencies of authoritarianism " the tendencies of greed " the tendencies of hatred, rage and lust."


"Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of that would do."


"You are modern humans of the civilized world. And modern humans rise beyond all laws and superstitions of the society. They help their fellow beings to rise from the ashes of ignorance, illusion and fear."


"Change is a quintessential element of progress. Without change, progress is non-existent."



"Never become a slave to tradition, learn to foresee new things."


"Crawl in faith, and you will end up walking. Walk in faith, and you will end up jogging. Jog in faith, and you will end up running. Run in faith, and you will end up sprinting. Sprint in faith, and you will end up soaring."


"A little here and a little there will always accumulate, so why be surprised when steady, small steps take you to great places?"



"We must eradicate ignorance and illiteracy from our nations and continent to the nearest minimum for us to have a national development."


"Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of progress of developing communities."


"You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing."


"There comes some special times that you got to keep "impossibility thinkers" behind you and walk with those are prepared to go forward with you because that is the only option to keep you going!"



"The messages emphasizing miracles and breakthrough must be replaced if our nation must move forward."


"It might be like you are still far from getting there, but remember, you are closer to it than you were yesterday. Every tiny step you take counts a lot!"
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