Quotes with progress

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  • Henry Ford Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Henry George Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Herbert Hoover Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Ben Hecht Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Oscar Wilde Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Paul J. Meyer Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
    Paul J. Meyer
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
    Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
    Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (1897 - 2003)
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  • John Wooden For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Samuel Butler For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure - tangible material prosperity in this world - is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Alan Dundes Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Hunter S. Thompson Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Bill Shuster Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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