Top 40 Progress Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Progress is impossible without change.”

— Walt Disney

2. “Progress is more important than perfection.”

— Simon Sinek

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3. “Where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress.”

— Eric Thomas

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4. “Failure is success in progress.”

— Albert Einstein

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5. “Progress equals happiness.”

— Tony Robbins

6. “Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is ‘Am I progressing?’”

— Robin S. Sharma

7. “If it is not a mess, it is not progress.”

— Robin S. Sharma

8. “Launch and learn. Everything is progress.”

— Danielle LaPorte

9. “Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid!”

— Joyce Meyer

10. “There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.”

— Ronald Reagan

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11. “Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation.”

— Tony Robbins

12. “The price of progress is trouble.”

— Charles F. Kettering

13. “The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don’t know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.”

— William Feather

14. “A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.”

— Thomas Carlyle

15. “All progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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16. “You cannot make progress without making decisions.”

— Jim Rohn

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17. “A man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress.”

— Ayn Rand

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18. “There is no history of how bad became better.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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19. “Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.”

— Franz Kafka

20. “It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”

— Ram Dass

21. “Don’t hurry anything. Don’t worry about the future. Don’t worry about what progress you’re making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.”

— Alan Watts

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22. “Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.”

— Karl Marx

23. “Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.”

— Stephen R. Covey

24. “Everything is a work-in-progress.”

— Nicholas A. Basbanes

25. “A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won’t progress.”

— Lee Kuan Yew

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26. “Work hard! Just keep working hard until you can do something you want to do! We all progress at different speeds and in different ways, so be patient and keep working hard!”

— Hiromi

27. “Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”

— George Orwell

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28. “Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.”

— Oscar Wilde

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29. “The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It’s science that people want to work on.”

— Bill Gates

30. “It is impossible to have progress without conscience.”

— Robert Rauschenberg

31. “To those who can hear me, I say – do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed – the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.”

— Charlie Chaplin

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32. “We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today, climate change, into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.”

— Ban Ki-Moon

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33. “What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.”

— Helen Keller

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34. “You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily – you are the only one who can do it permanently.”

— Zig Ziglar

35. “To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it’s gone. I think we should establish life on another planet – Mars in particular – but we ’re not making very good progress. SpaceX is intended to make that happen.”

— Elon Musk

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36. “My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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37. “The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are ‘status quo’ is the catastrophe.”

— Walter Benjamin

38. “The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.”

— John F. Kennedy

39. “As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

40. “Scientific Progress goes boink?”

— Bill Watterson

41. “The first step to getting anywhere is deciding you’re no longer willing to stay where you are.”

— Anonymous

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42. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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43. “When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.”

— Eric Hoffer

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