Living movement. [ Carlyle ]
Progress is lame. [ Sainte-Beuve ]
Row on whatever happens. [ Rabelais ]
Progress - the stride of God. [ Victor Hugo ]
Revolutions never go backwards. [ Emerson ]
We are swinging round the circle. [ Andrew Johnson ]
Progress begins with the minority. [ G. W. Curtis ]
Intercourse is the soul of progress. [ Charles Buxton ]
Human improvement is from within outwards. [ Froude ]
From Helicon's harmonious springs
A thousand rills their mazy progress take. [ Gray ]
Look one step onward, and secure that step! [ Robert Browning ]
What cannot art and industry perform,
When science plans the progress of their toil! [ Beattie ]
Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's and not the beasts': God is, they are;
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. [ Browning ]
Progress is the law of life - man is not man as yet. [ Browning ]
All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance. [ Gibbon ]
There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [ Rousseau ]
The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Cost is the father and compensation is the mother of progress. [ J. G. Holland ]
There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber. [ Johnson ]
Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress. [ Charles Sumner ]
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward. [ Heinrich Heine ]
Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press. [ Horace Greeley ]
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. [ Margaret Fuller ]
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless. [ Seneca ]
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. [ Voltaire ]
Consideration for woman is the measure of a nation's progress in social life. [ Gregoire ]
Let me wipe off this honorable dew, that silverly doth progress on thy cheeks. [ William Shakespeare ]
Without the ideal, the inexhaustible source of all progress, - what would man be? [ Mme. de Girardin ]
He hath made a good progress in a business, that hath thought well of it beforehand. [ Proverb ]
Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; and lend a hand. [ E. E. Hale ]
Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline. [ Ruskin ]
Nothing can be so injurious to progress as to be altogether blamed or altogether praised. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
From Egypt arts their progress made to Greece, wrapped in the fable of the golden fleece. [ Sir J. Denham ]
Press on! - for in the grave there is no work And no device - Press on! while yet ye may! [ N. P. Willis ]
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. [ Goethe ]
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations. [ Berthold Auerbach ]
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Political convulsions, like geological upheavings, usher in new epochs of the world's progress. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Not because I raise myself above something but because I raise myself to something, do I approve myself. [ Jacobi ]
The progress of elegant literature and of the fine arts is proportioned to that of the public prosperity. [ T. B. Macaulay ]
Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Without the ideal, this inexhaustible source of all progress, what would man be? and what would society be? [ E. de Girardin ]
Intellectual progress, separated from moral progress, gives a fearful result: a being possessing nothing but brains. [ A. de Gasparin ]
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. [ James Freeman Clarke ]
Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it. [ Hare ]
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves. Fear, desire, and hope are still pushing us on towards the future. [ Montaigne ]
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. [ Hawthorne ]
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast [ Coleridge ]
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas. [ Bovee ]
Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration. [ Lord Brougham ]
I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil. [ James A. Garfield ]
Was there ever anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe and the Pilgrim's Progress? [ Dr. Johnson ]
Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is, of a state of progress and change. [ John Ruskin ]
It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]
The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past. [ Ruskin ]
The human mind is to be treated like a skein of ravelled silk, where you must cautiously secure one free end before you can make any progress in disentangling it. [ Scott ]
The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree. [ W. B. Clulow ]
Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature. [ Sears ]
This century boasts of progress! Have they invented a new mortal sin? Unfortunately there are but seven, as before - the number of the daily falls of a saint, which is very little. [ T. Gautier ]
After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the incalculable results of this life, a crown of shame or glory upon our heads, and begin again on a new level of progress. [ Hugh R. Haweis ]
It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress. [ Herbert Spencer ]
Utopia! such is the name with which ignorance, folly, and incredulity have always characterized the great conceptions, discoveries, enterprises, and ideas which have illustrated the ages, and marked eras in human progress. [ E. de Girardin ]
Ideas are, like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down, so to speak, to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings the way is never ending, and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable. [ Bovee ]
Natural knowledge is come at by the continuance and progress of learning and of liberty, and by particular persons attending to, comparing, and pursuing intimations scattered up and down it, which are overlooked and disregarded by the generality of the world. [ Bishop Butler ]
Nowadays enthusiasm is accounted folly; truth, cynicism; dissimulation, self-control; stiffness of manners, dignity; deception, cleverness; hypocrisy, decency; selfishness, economy; freedom of thought, effrontery; and superstition, the prop of human morals. What progress in language!
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. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor; and on they go as their fathers went before them, till, weary and sick at heart, they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood. [ Rogers ]
The province of music is rather to express the passions and feelings of the human heart than the actions of men, or the operations of nature. When employed in the former capacity, it becomes an eloquent language; when in the latter, a mere mimic - an imitator, and a very miserable one - or rather a buffoon, caricaturing what it cannot imitate; the idea of the different stages of a battle, or the progress of a tempest being represented to the eye or the ear, or even the imagination, by the quavering of a fiddler's elbow, or the squeaking of catgut, is preposterous. [ G. P. Morris ]