P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Progress lives in the loop between reflection and action. Break the loop, and you break momentum.”
Source: Alignment Is The Key: Mastering The 8 Timeless Principles of Enduring Success
“Progress loses meaning when the environment is sacrificed. Development that poisons the air, water, and soil is theft from future generations. Sustainable growth is not an option but a duty owed to life itself.”
“Progress may feel more like loss than gain.”
“Progress means advancement in the path of upliftment – in the path of enlightenment – in the path of humanitarian glory.”
Source: The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
“Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.”
Source: God in the Dock
“Progress means nothing to presence.”
“Progress means progress of all humans from all walks of life, not just the progress in science, progress in technology or progress in philosophy.”
Source: Saint of The Sapiens
“Progress means simplifying, not complicating”
“Progress means to be true to the world, If we need to make a change.”
“Progress might be inevitable, but there was no reason they should knuckle under without a fight.”
Source: Into the Beautiful North
“Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.”
“Progress must not become progressivism, where success is measured only by achieving pragmatic results.”
“Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it.”
“Progress, not perfection. Action, not excuses. You've got this!”
Source: The Procrastination Solution: Daily Strategies to Take Immediate Action to Overcome Self-Imposed Delays, Build Consistent Momentum, and Create Unstoppable Productivity
“Progress not perfection.”
“Progress not perfection... you can't be perfect everything... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.”
“Progress occurs one apology at a time.”
Source: Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust
“Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.”
“Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.”
Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist
“Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity.”
“Progress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning.”
“Progress often requires pragmatism, not purity or perfection. We cannot work only with individuals and institutions that we agree with on every single position on every issue across every single point on a long timeline.”
Source: The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change
“Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.”
Source: Leadership Without Easy Answers
“Progress on the social ladder is almost always the result of progress in other areas of your life.”
“Progress, one step after another, steps long and steps short, stumbling, slipping backward, but continuing to put one foot in front of the other, even when the feet are weary.”
“Progress Over Perfection!”
“Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.”
“Progress requires change.”
Source: Next Generation Leader
“Progress requires sacrifice of security.”
Source: The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth
“Progress requires unlearning. Becoming best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity”
Source: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
“Progress requires unlearning. Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs.”
Source: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
“Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.”
“Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.”
“Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.”
Source: Supernatural Hypocrisy: The Cognitive Dissonance of a God Cosmology: Volume 3: Cosmology of the Bible
“Progress starts with envisioning a new (yet old) lifestyle with the home as central to all aspects of life-work and leisure, food and energy. So, real progress means bringing the economy, beginning with the food economy, home again.”
“Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.”
“Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.”
Source: The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,
“Progress through truth.”
“Progress to perfection
keeping it simple.”
“Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven. . . . My message certainly is not one of complacency. In this I agree with the doomsayers: our world needs the best efforts of all humanity to improve our lot.”
“Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the invisible king-the élan vital-the principle of evolution ... writing a book, starting a war, founding a school.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.”
“Progress was real progress only when it evolved naturally and thoughtfully from the history of human experience and accumulated wisdom. When it was imposed in contempt for that experience and wisdom, then progress was in fact radical destruction.
...Carson began to understand that what he sought was an escape from the hubris of humanity, from the endless discontent of those who believed in one utopia or another in spite of the fact that history showed utopian thinking to lead inevitably to disaster and often to mass murder on an industrial scale. But of course there could be no escape from the overweening pride and arrogance of the species. You could withdraw, remake your life with a small circle of friends who didn’t wish to silence and punish their fellow countrymen with whom they disagreed, who knew the grievous threat to peace that arose from contempt for others, from an inflated self-esteem that became vainglory. But there was no town remote enough, no fortress walls high enough to protect you from mad ideas with mass appeal.”
Source: Devoted
“Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.”
“Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch in the individual. We can safeguard these ends if we give to each individual that opportunity for which the spirit of America stands.”
Source: American Individualism
“Progress without heart is prologue to downfall.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“Progress without humility is just destruction in disguise.”
“Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.”
“Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.”