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Progress

«Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.»
«It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.»
«I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up.»
«In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.»
«If there is no struggle, there is no progress.»
«In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.»
«If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.»
Author: Epictetus | About: Progress, Virtue
«Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.»
«Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.»
«It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.»

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