P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Progress is not one of those floating comparatives, so beloved of our friends in advertising, we need a context, a perspective. What are we better than? Who are we better than? Examine this statement: Most people are better off. Financially? socially? educationally? medically? spiritually? I dare not ask if you are happy? Are you happy?”
Source: Art and Lies
“Progress is not possible without discipline. A nation, institution, family or individual can advance only by heeding the words of those who deserve respect and by obeying the appropriate rules and regulations. Children, obedience is not weakness. Obedience with humility leads to discipline.”
“Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.”
“Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.”
“Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.”
“Progress is often equal to the difference between mind and mindset.”
“Progress is often just a good idea away.”
“Progress is one step closer to excellence.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts.”
“Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.”
“Progress is our most important product, General Electric says, and I had progressed to the front door of hell when all I had actually been striving for was a quiet purgatory. And I did not find it strange that hell had a soft blue sky, a springlike air, music, dust, laughter, curses.”
Source: The Wig: A Mirror Image
“Progress is personal; it comes from individuals demanding more of themselves and everyone else.”
“Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.”
“Progress is possible through persistent action.”
“Progress is possible with peace of mind.”
“Progress is precisely that which rules and regulations did not foresee.”
“Progress is proven through action, not theory.”
“Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.”
“Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.”
“Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines have a long life. A professor teaches what he was taught, and his pupils, with a proper respect and reverence for teachers, set up a resistance against his critics for no other reason than that it was he whose pupils they were.”
“Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased.”
“Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow”
Source: Early Lectures: 1838-1842
“Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.”
Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans
“Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.”
Source: The greatest minds and ideas of all time
“Progress is the exploration of our own error.”
Source: The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
“Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are of two kinds: errors that turn out to be true and errors that turn out to be false (which are most of them). But they both have the same character of being an imaginative speculation. I say all this because I want very much to talk about the human side of discovery and progress, and it seems to me terribly important to say this in an age in which most non-scientists are feeling a kind of loss of nerve.”
Source: The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
“Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.”
Source: The Lessons of History
“Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.”
Source: The Works of Robert Browning
“Progress is the life-style of man.”
“Progress is the mother of all problems.”
“Progress is the mother of problems.”
Source: The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton
“Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.”
“Progress is the realization of utopia.”
Source: The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings
“Progress is the stride of God.”
“Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.”
“Progress is the ultimate motivation.”
“Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.”
Source: The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches
“Progress is the wall behind which white America hides. (Even many Black leaders have absorbed and regurgitate the progress narrative.) White liberals expect Black people to applaud their efforts. But how is that a fair and legitimate expectation? Slavery, white supremacy, and racism are horrid, man-made constructs that should never have existed in the first place. Are we meant to cheer the slow, creeping, centuries-long undoing of a thing that never should have been done?”
Source: The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
“Progress is to respect what is present and vice versa, although it may not speak out.”
“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.”
Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition
“Progress isn't always visible—but Heaven sees it.”
Source: Take a Step with Him - Adventuring with God into Fresh Beginnings
“Progress Isn't Linear, Setbacks Are Part Of Success!”
Source: Pursue Your Spark: Your Guide to Escaping Midlife Traps, Reclaiming Confidence, and Living Fully
“Progress isn't linear, though. If you plotted it onto a graph, it wouldn't be this straight line up towards happiness. It would wiggle backwards, then forwards, up and down. You might feel worse in a month from now than you did a few weeks after it happened. But that doesn't mean you're not healing. It just means that we all experience emotions at different times.”
Source: Notes on Heartbreak
“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
“Progress just means bad things happen faster.”
Source: Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)
“Progress knows no gender. It’s time to break down barriers and accelerate change for all. Inclusion is not just about inviting women to the table; it’s about ensuring their voices are heard, valued, and respected. Let’s invest in the capabilities, dreams, and aspirations of women, for in doing so, we invest in the progress of humanity.”
“Progress lies in the surprise.”
Source: CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field
“Progress lies in the will of the people to work.”
“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”