Quotes and Sayings about Progress

Ich gehe langsam, aber ich gehe nie zurück.

Without progress there will be stagnation and decay. There again, progress for progress's sake must be discouraged, for our tried and tested traditions often require no tinkering. A balance, then, between old and new, between permanence and change, between tradition and innovation.

Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

We keep moving forward, opening new doors... because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Walt Disney

Curiosity

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO)

Change Risk Business

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.

Al Gore

It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet.

Werner Heisenberg

Thinking

For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.

Ernest Cline in Ready Player One

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It's in our Nature to want to rise above our limits. Think about it. We were cold, so we harnessed fire. We were weak, so we invented tools. Every time we met an obstacle, we used creativity and ingenuity to overcome it. The cycle is inevitable... but will the outcome always be good? I guess that will depend on how we approach it.

Adam Jensen in Deus Ex - Human Revolution

Technology

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

Self-Confidence Motivation Positive Quotes

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Thomas J. Watson

Success Business

It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.

Harvey Fierstein

Life

Just because something works doesn’t mean it can’t be improved.

Shuri in Black Panther

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

Fridtjof Nansen

Motivation Brücken

The only way to grow is to challenge yourself.

Ashley Tisdale

Motivation

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Marie Curie

Work

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

Truth Science

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

Andy Warhol

Motivation

I suppose people of our generation aren't able to die for good causes any longer. We had all that done for us, in the thirties and the forties, when we were still kids. There aren't any good, brave causes left.

John Osborne in Look Back in Anger

Generations

True nobility lies not in being superior to another man, but being superior to one's previous self.

Indian Asian Saying

Ambition Character

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Henry David Thoreau

Past

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Neil Armstrong - first manned landing on the moon (July 20th 1969)

Moon 1969 Famous Quotes

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein - Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007)

Life Bicycles

Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.

Guglielmo Marconi

People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.

Sam Altman

The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed.

William Gibson - December 2003

Globalization

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

Progress has always been perilous. Once we were freezing and so we made fires. Sometimes our houses burned down and sometimes even whole villages. But we would never revert to the life we had without fire. Same thing goes for cars. Hundreds of people die in traffic every year. So we make safer cars, we don't go back to horses and carriages.

Saxa Jutul in Ragnarok - Season 1 Episode 4

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti

Racing

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Havelock Ellis

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Sid Caesar

You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.

Lucy Liu

Future

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

Millard Fillmore

Change

Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.

Michael Bloomberg

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Christopher Columbus

Courage Motivation

The most important thing is not stagnating, to keep improving.

Marc-André ter Stegen

Motivation

The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.

Marianne Williamson

Mountains

Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing.

LL Cool J

Objectives Motivation

Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword.

Rhys Darby

Science

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Nelson Mandela

Motivation

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass

Work

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

Change

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

John Stuart Mill

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Benjamin Franklin

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

Marcus Garvey

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

François de La Rochefoucauld

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

Elon Musk

Space Travel Mars

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

James Joyce

Failures & Mistakes

It's clear to us we're living in perhaps the most disruptive time in the history of technology.

Shantanu Narayen (Adobe CEO) - about Adobe CS6

Technology 2012

We have a saying: 'Move fast and break things.' The idea is that if you never break anything, you're probably not moving fast enough.

Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO)

Facebook

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

John Locke

Innovation

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I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

Albert Einstein

Foolishness Technology Generations

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Courage Motivation

The future is easy because it doesn't exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

Fred Durst

Future Past

Innovation is about seeing things from a different perspective.

Amaury Guichon in School of Chocolate - Season 1 Episode 1

Innovation

Tradition is the corpse of wisdom.

Zed the Master of Shadows in League of Legends

Tradition

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