| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Lincoln | I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. |
| Alexander Pope | Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. |
| Alexander Pope | Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. |
| Bishop George Berkeley | Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past, A fifth shall close the Drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. |
| Cervantes Saavedra | A man prepared has half fought the battle. |
| E J Klemme | There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning. |
| Edward Everett Hale | To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in--and To lend a hand. |
| Frank Moore Colby | I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top. |
| George Meredith | "Spiral!" the memorable Lady terms Our mind's ascent. |
| Gerald Stanley Lee | I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before. |
| H L Mencken | Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God. |
| Henry Doherty | Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least. |
| Henry George | So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. |
| Henry George | Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? |
| Henry George | Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. |
| Henry Havelock Ellis | What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. |
| John Quincy Adams | Westward the star of empire takes its way. |
| John Quincy Adams | All rising to great place is by a winding stair. |
| Samuel Butler | The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. |
| Stanislaw Lec | Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork? |
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