Best Progress Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 23

“We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.”

Art Pieces Progress Feet Hundred Raises

Book:Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

“Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.”

Ifs Men Progress Judging Labels Labour Persistent Judge Me Slow Progress

Author:John Burns

“I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.”

People Wells Play Used Waiting Progress Excuse Finished Orchestra Work In Progress

Author:Chris Lowe

“In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.”

Years Three Successful Progress Citizens Election Iraq Three Years Immense Threatened

Author:John Linder

“Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.”

Men Kind Has Beens Philosophy Progress Authority Reverence Consent Antiquity Enchantment Progress In Science

Author:Francis Bacon

“We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.”

“What is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals?”

Firsts Goal Steps Gone Progress First Steps

Author:Michael Gerber

“Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.”

People Want May Ends Spirit Names Growth Freedom Liberty Progress Substance Boon

Book:The Importance and Means of a National Literature

Source: The Importance and Means of a National Literature

“If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.”

Ifs Should Mind Firsts Ideas Together Simple Attention Progress Reflection Should Have Add Repeats Sensations Simple Ideas

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.”

Heart Spiritual Individual Brain Greater Progress Demand Direct Rationality Belly Spiritual Health Individuals And Society

Book:The Kempton-Wase Letters

Source: The Kempton-Wase Letters

“Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for general security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race.”

Men Long Earth Together Nations Interest Justice Race Progress Security Foundation Improvement Temples Civilized Honored Civilized Nations

Book:The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

“Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it.”

Government Able Natural Wealth Progress England Improvement Retarded

Book:An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner

Source: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner

“Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood.”

Should Progress Conscious Understood Should Have Unity Mutual Dependence Hymns Completeness

Author:James Montgomery

“Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be prematurely cut off, either gradually or suddenly; that every stone of offence against which we stumble is a stepping-stone to some greater good; that, at the end of days, if we choose to put it so, or, rather, in some sphere beyond the world of space and time, all the rays of progress will be summed and centred in a transcendent focus.”