Best progress & individual Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.”

Individual Path Progress Stones Responsible Smooth Rapids Stepping Stones

Author:Ernest Lawrence

“All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.”

World Choices Individual Difficult Progress Traditional

Author:Gore Verbinski

“National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.”

Individual Energy Progress Industry Individuality Vices Selfish Selfishness Decay Idleness Uprightness

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.”

Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

“Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.”

Made Individual Taken Progress Gains Granted Taken For Granted

Author:Aldous Huxley

“All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.”

Knows Humans Has Beens Important Individual Progress Majority Historical Dues Opposition

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?.”

Ifs Humans Wells Universe Individual Human Beings Progress Evolution Fundamentals Series Desirable Permanence Hallmark Flux Alterations Stasis

Book:Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

Source: Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

“The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.”

Individual Wonder Progress Harmony Appearance Progression Individual Life Cacophony

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval.”

Ideas Individual Progress Depends Judgment Despite Collectives Individualism New Ideas Being Free Disapproval

Book:Theory of Economic Growth

Source: Theory of Economic Growth

“Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.”

Doe Individual Differences Progress Depends Score Collectives

Book:The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

Source: The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

“I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.”

Men Mean Long Seems Care Happiness Humanity Individual Progress Goodness Ideals Mere Species Longevity I Care Individual Life

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior.”

“But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply marked-off classes; it has taught us that original capacities are indefinitely numerous and variable. It is but the other side of this fact to say that in the degree in which society has become democratic, social organization means utilization of the specific and variable qualities of individuals, not stratification by classes.”

Source: Democracy And Education

“Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.”

Suffering Individual Numbers Principles Progress Tests Impact Excuse Indifference Enlightened

Book:In Place of Fear

Source: In Place of Fear

“Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exchange. But no matter how controlled the mobilization of instinctual energy may be (it sometimes amounts to a scientific management of libido), no matter how much it may serve as a prop for the status quo - it is also gratifying to the managed individuals, just as racing the outboard motor, pushing the power lawn mower, and speeding the automobile are fun.”

“Samadhi is the journey from individual to collective consciousness. The steps of Samadhi are the steps towards reaching the collective consciousness. In meditation, the more we radiate love, compassion, peace, harmony and tranquility, the more is our contribution towards the collective consciousness. The more we positively contribute towards the collective consciousness the more is our progress in Samadhi.”

Individual Consciousness Compassion Steps Meditation Progress Journey Harmony Contribution Reaching Collectives Tranquility Positively Samadhi Collective Consciousness Peace Harmony

Author:Amit Ray

“Progress is personal; it comes from individuals demanding more of themselves and everyone else.”

Individual Progress

Author:Richard Koch

“In your works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions, is exactly what I am trying to find in my painting.”

Trying Form Individual Voice Destiny Progress Painting Independent Composition Uncertain Independent Life

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in the mass, then our objectives should be to maintain such freedom as allows the individual to think and speak for himself.”

Ifs Thinking Should Individual Speak Freedom Progress Mankind Depends Speech Mass Objectives Individualism Free Thought

Author:Louis J. Halle

“Generally speaking, an Indian university must regard itself as one of the living organs of national reconstruction. It must discover the best means of blending together both the spiritual and the material aspects of life. It must equip its alumni irrespective of caste, creed or sex, with individual fitness, not for its own sake, not for merely adorning varied occupations and professions, but in order to teach them how to merge their individuality in the common cause of advancing the progress and prosperity of their motherland and upholding the highest traditions of human civilisation.”

“There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.”

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Author:Charles Baudelaire

“If the world is made to furnish each individual with the means of livelihood and the instruments for his growth and progress, each man has therefore the right to find in the world what is necessary for himself. The recent Council reminded us of this: "God intended the earth and all that it contains for the use of every human being and people. Thus, as all men follow justice and unite in charity, created goods should abound for them on a reasonable basis."”

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Author:Pope Paul VI

“One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the alter of the great historical ideas - justice or progress or happiness of future generations... or emancipation of a nation or race or class... this is the belief that somewhere... there is a final solution.”

“Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing,--the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations.”

Firsts Light Individual Energy Nations Progress Failing Industry Civilization Blessing Spring Labor Roots Perseverance Prudence Stimulus Chastisement

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“a little of the ready reliance on the expert comes from the desire to waive responsibillity, comes from the endless evasion of life instead of an honest facing of it. The expert is to many what the priest is, someone who knows absolutely and can tell us what to do. The king, the priest, the expert, have one after the other had our allegiance, but so far as we put any of them in the place of ourselves, we have not a sound society and neither individual nor general progress.”

Knows Littles Desire Individual Sound Progress Honest Ready Kings Endless Experts Priests Reliance Allegiance Evasion

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.”

Political Individual Race Progress Development Essentials Election Institutions Election Day Political Institutions Progress And Development

Author:Hugh Price Hughes

“The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.”

Light Moving Individual Heaven Race Progress Latitude Always Moving

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.”

Ifs Should Fall Individual Social Easy Consciousness Progress Subjects Disease Degrees Highest Bases Victim Subconscious Epidemics Humanistic

Author:Boris Sidis

“The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their inner life, their forms of expression become more complex.”

Shows Spiritual Form Artist Individual Growth Creative Progress Expression Complexes Complexity Spiritual Growth Inner Life

Author:Mieczyslaw Jastrun

“I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.”

Age Individual Ability Numbers Progress Conclusion Transcendent Small Numbers

Book:In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

Source: In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

“Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.”

“Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind.”

Should Individual Nations Progress Mankind

Author:Leon Bourgeois

“Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.”

World Whole Culture Individual Progress Youth

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.”

“They are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize themselves upon a rationalist and scientific paradigm.”

“In all ages, through all the varied experience of individuals and nations, knowledge has been the power which has civilized, elevated and dignified humanity. In those countries where progress has been most rapid, the thirst for knowledge has been most intense.”

Has Beens Country Age Humanity Individual Nations Knowledge Progress Intense Civilized Thirst Rapids Thirst For Knowledge

Book:The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké

Source: The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké

“Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.”

“Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development which our society is pursuing. A purely economic and technological understanding of progress, to the extent that it fails to acknowledge its intrinsic limitations and to take into consideration the integral good of humanity, will inevitably provoke negative consequences for individuals, peoples and creation itself.”

“We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical growth any more than our progress as individuals has to be defined in terms of physical growth. Physical growth of the body reaches a limit, but the character and the soul of the individual continues to grow, or at least has a chance to continue, often to our last breath. It is simple minded to define our well being in material terms, when that well-being has an aesthetic dimension, and intellectual dimension, a moral dimension.”

“We do not run government on whims of an individual, our progress is reforms driven, our reforms are policy driven and our policies are people driven.”

People Government Running Individual Powerful Progress Policy Driven Reform Whim

Author:Narendra Modi

“The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.”

Men Humans Individual Progress Diversity Increase Sacred Intellect Freedom Of Thought Refinement Differentiation

Author:Felix Adler

“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

“Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been made possible by the freedom of the individual to follow his own curiosity.”

Has Beens Made Important Individual Progress Curiosity Objectives Small Parts Scientific Progress

Author:Irving Langmuir

“Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."”

“To have a free, peaceful and prosperous world we must be ever stronger particularly in the spiritual things....It is American belief in decency and justice and progress and the value of individual liberty because of the rights conferred on each of us by our Creator that willcarry us through.... There must be something in the heart as well as the head.”

World Wells Heart Spiritual Values Individual Belief Justice Liberty Rights Progress Stronger Creator Peaceful Decency Prosperous Individual Liberty

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.”

Humans Values Individual Nations Progress Human Values Observance

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.”

Humans Persons Past Faces Individual Human Beings Situation Novel Progress Danger Duty Ordinary Rate Fixed Length Parallels Length Of Life

Book:Science and the Modern World

Source: Science and the Modern World

“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.”

Ifs Giving Ends Character America Spirit Opportunity Individual Progress Divine March Initiative Abiding Abiding Faith

Book:American Individualism

Source: American Individualism

“Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social adjustment springs from diversity and depends upon a tolerance of individual deviations from conventional ways and attitudes.”

Way Art Individual Social Loses Attitude Progress Depends Diversity Spring Patterns Tolerance Conventional Imperatives Adjustment Deviation Conventional Ways

Author:Alan Barth

“We must remove government's smothering hand from where it does harm; we must seek to revitalize the proper functions of government. We do these things to set loose again the energy and the ingenuity of the American people. We do these things to reinvigorate those social and economic institutions which serve as a buffer and a bridge between the individual and the state - and which remain the real source of our progress as a people.”

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Book:Speaking my mind: selected speeches

Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches

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