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Progress is about moving forwards …

• Progress: Forward or onward movement towards a destination. Oxford Dictionary
• Progress: Development towards an improved or more advanced condition. Oxford Dictionary
• Progress: Growth or development; continuous improvement. Dictionary.com
• Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. Kahlil Gibran
• Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction. Roger McDonald
• The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. Franklin D. Roosevelt
• There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. Franklin D. Roosevelt
• I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way. Carl Sandburg
• The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• He who moves not forward, goes backward. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Change,  Improvement,  Growth,  Transformation,   The power of small steps,  Technology

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… towards worthy goals

• Progress: A movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage. com
• Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. Deepak Chopra
• Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals. Jim Rohn
• Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. Earl Nightingale
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Progress is breaking your own records

• Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek to break the record of our yesterday. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair past follies; each day to surpass ourselves. This is, simply, progress. Smith Sumner

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Life is about making personal progress

• Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Benjamin Franklin
• Life is a progress, and not a station. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• It’s not about success, it’s about progress. Tony Robbins

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Progress is a lifelong journey rather than a destination

• Life is a progress, and not a station. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak. Tal Ben-Shahar
• Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever- lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. Winston Churchill
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Progress leads to happiness and self-confidence …

• Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be. Brian Tracy
• We get more pleasure from making progress toward our goals than we do from achieving them because, as Shakespeare said, “Joy’s soul lies in the doing.” Jonathan Haidt
• If virtue promises good fortune and tranquility and happiness, certainly also the progress towards virtue is progress towards each of these things. Epictetus
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… but not always

• Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind. The Dalai Lama

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Make progress by taking small, daily steps …

• To make the quickest progress, you don’t have to take huge leaps. You just have to take baby steps—and keep on taking them. In Japan, they call this approach kaizen, which literally translates as ‘continual improvement.’ Using kaizen, great and lasting success is achieved through small, consistent steps. It turns out that slow and steady is the best way to overcome your resistance to change. Marci Shimoff
• You can’t do everything at once. But if you keep adding a little progress every day, over time you will have built a whole new set of habits and self- disciplines. Remember, anything valuable takes time. There are no overnight successes. Jack Canfield
• Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self- confident and more and more successful. Mark Victor Hansen
• It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward. Old Chinese Proverb
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… one step at a time …

• The ability to progress and achieve extraordinary results even in the midst of chaos is to take just one step at a time in the right direction. Tony Robbins

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… even if sometimes you need to take a temporary step back

• And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction. Kurt Vonnegut
• Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.  S. Lewis

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Make progress by daring to be different and not simply following the herd

• All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. Adlai Stevenson
• All progress occurs because people dare to be different. Henry Miller
• It’s the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you’re mad, then dangerous, then there’s a pause and then you can’t find anyone who disagrees with you. Tony Benn
• Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. Frank Zappa
• At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Maurice Maeterlinck
• One who accepts the general ideas of his time gets along smoothest, but he does the least for progress. Lewis F. Korns
• All progress means war with society. George Bernard Shaw
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Make progress by being unreasonable

• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw
• Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and “progress,” everything on earth that is man- made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man’s refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, “Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue.” Robert Anton Wilson

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Make progress by learning from failure and mistakes

• Everything we enjoy in society is a direct result of the accumulated learning derived from millions of mistakes. No mistakes, no progress. Robert White
• Our failures only indicate that we are trying for new summits of achievement, and if we are not failing we are not trying. It is not the individual failure that matters, but rather the overall progress. As the Chinese put it, ‘The fault is not in falling down, it is in lying there.’ Ervin Seale
• People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. Dale Turner
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Make progress by harnessing your creativity

• Creativity pervades human life. It is the mark of individuality. The vehicle of self-expression. The engine of progress in every human endeavor. Elliot Samuel Paul
• There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. Edward De Bono
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Make progress by creating a vision of your ideal self

• What ignited the process wasn’t any innate skill or gene. It was a small, ephemeral, yet powerful idea: a vision of their ideal future selves, a vision that oriented, energized, and accelerated progress, and that originated in the outside world. Daniel Coyle
• Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. Earl Nightingale
• Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another. Romain Rolland
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Make progress by moving towards your dreams

• Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us. Robin S. Sharma
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Make progress through modelling others

• Accelerate your progress towards success by modelling those who are already successful. It’s much easier to copy what someone else has already done. What’s even better, is you can then improve upon what someone has done and achieve better results, often in a shorter period of time. Tony Robbins
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Make progress through teamwork

• Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. Henry Ford
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Make progress by taking risks

• Behold the turtle… He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. James B. Conant
• Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. F.W. Dupee
• Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities. Susan Rice
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Make progress by making committed decisions

• It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions. Jim Rohn
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Make progress through practice and training

• Progress comes to those who train and train. Reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere. Morihei Ueshiba
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Make progress by asking new questions

• All human progress is preceded by new questions. Tony Robbins
• Man’s “progress” is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Make progress by doing what you love

• When you do what you love, the seemingly impossible becomes simply challenging, the laborious becomes purposeful resistance, the difficult loses its edge and is trampled by your progress. Steve Maraboli
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Make progress by serving others

• When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity. Wayne Dyer
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Make progress through commitment and learning

• 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 Covey
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Make progress by following the natural laws of the universe

• I believe there are an infinite number of laws of the universe and that all progress or dreams achieved come from operating in a way that’s consistent with them. These laws and the principles of how to operate in harmony with them have always existed. We were given these laws by nature. Man didn’t and can’t make them up. He can only hope to understand them and use them to get what he wants. Ray Dalio
• Progress consists largely of learning to apply laws and truths that have always existed. Jim Allen May

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Make progress through taking action

• The secret of making progress is to get started. The secret to starting is to divide your complex, overwhelming task into small, manageable tasks, and then start the first. Mark Twain
• 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. Theodore Roosevelt
• Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. Shirley Hufsteddler
• Doing nothing gets you nothing. Sean Reichle
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Make progress by harnessing any discontent you may have

• Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Thomas A. Edison
• Progress is not created by contented people. Frank Tyger
• The first step toward progress is dissatisfaction. But if we stay in dissatisfaction, we never move forward to brighter vistas. Will Bowen

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Make progress by spending time alone

• It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world’s progress has come out of such loneliness. Bruce Barton
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Realise that challenges, setbacks and difficulties can accelerate progress

• A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul’s growth. You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your physical progress. Brian L. Weiss
• Spirit seeks expression through you. The very nature of being alive is participation, expansion, change, and progress. You were put here not to cower before obstacles, limitations, or dangers but to reach beyond your comfort horizon and dare to embrace your fears as opportunities for learning.  Cash Peters
• You’ve got to operate on the premise that everything happens for a reason. That even setbacks are progress. That there is some divine sensibility to how all of this is unfolding—that there is some order to this chaos. Danielle LaPorte
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See problems as a sign of progress

• Problems are the price of progress. Don’t bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me. Charles Franklin Kettering
• The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. John Foster Dulles
• Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you’ve really got a problem… Problems are like landmarks of progress. Scott Alexander
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Differences and confrontation can be a sign of progress

• Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. Mahatma Gandhi
• The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert
• There can be no progress without head-on confrontation. Christopher Hitchens
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Beware of the barriers to progress

• Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer. Humphry Davy
• Of all the spirits, I believe the spirit of judging is the worst, and it has had the rule of me, I cannot tell you how dreadfully and how long. . . . This, I find has more hindered my progress in love and gentleness than all things else. F. D. Maurice
• I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. Petronius Arbiter
• The ego’s need for a false sense of control can block the flow of positive energy that will actually bring you the ideal circumstances you are searching for. It is fear-based thinking and can undermine your progress. Christin Sander
• The great obstacle of progress is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge. Rod Beckwith
• The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. Elbert Hubbard
• Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress. Steve Maraboli
• Whenever an individual or business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. Thomas Watson, Sr.
• The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness, not to stop your progress. Steve Maraboli
• He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress. Anwar Sadat
• There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is “fixed” for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off. Henry Ford
• Too much looking backward … is bad for progress. Henry Ward Beecher

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Progress requires new ideas …

• Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. L. Ron Hubbard
• Ideas are the engines of progress. They improve people’s lives by creating better ways to do things. They build and grow successful organizations and keep them healthy and prosperous. Without the ability to get new ideas, an organization stagnates and declines and will eventually be eliminated by competitors who do have fresh ideas. Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder
• Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. Alfred North Whitehead
• Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress. Lisa Randall
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… and the effective implementation of those ideas

• 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. Barry C. Forbes
• You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. Shirley Hufsteddler

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Progress requires embracing change

• Change is inevitable. Progress is optional. Tony Robbins
• Change is one thing, progress is another. “Change” is scientific, “progress” is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. Bertrand Arthur William Russell
• Change is the parent of progress. Steve Maraboli
• For changes to be of any true value, they’ve got to be lasting and consistent. Tony Robbins
• He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.  Harold Wilson
• People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change. Anthony de Mello
• Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw
• Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. Robert Francis Kennedy
• It is not strange … to mistake change for progress. Millard Fillmore
• The art of progress is to preserve order amid change. Alfred North Whitehead
• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
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Progress requires harnessing your imagination

• Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research. Albert Einstein
• Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the imagination. James Christensen
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Progress requires great patience and trust …

• Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, refecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud. Vernon Howard
• Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. Samuel Smiles
• I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. Marie Curie
• All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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… for progress is almost never a straight line

• Most learning consists of extended plateau periods in which we solidify progress through repetitive activity, followed by little spurts of improvement. Ronald S. Miller
• Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• To love the plateau is to love the eternal now, to enjoy the inevitable spurts of progress and the fruits of accomplishment, then serenely to accept the new plateau that waits just beyond them. To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life. George Leonard
• What most people don’t realize is that progress isn’t a linear curve going up and up and up. Most of your time will be spent on a plateau. Henri Junttila

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Progress requires humility

• Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers and try to live in harmony with natural laws and universal principles. Stephen Covey
• The great obstacle of progress is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge. Rod Beckwith
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Progress requires stretching your comfort zone

• We still get scared when we leave the comfort zone. But without change and discomfort, there can be no progress and achievement.  Robin S. Sharma
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Progress requires sacrifice and struggle

• 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. Martin Luther King Jr.
• If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass

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Progress requires an optimistic outlook

• Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress. Nicholas Murray Butler
• Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change–this is the rhythm of our living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.  Bruce Barton
• Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment. Horace Mann
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Regularly evaluate your progress …

• Effective problem-solvers tend to monitor their progress as they work towards a solution. If they are not making good progress toward reaching their goal, they will reevaluate their approach or look for new strategies. Kendra Cherry

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… and celebrate any progress you make, no matter how small

• Celebrate any progress. Don’t wait to get perfect. Ann McGee Cooper
• It is important that you recognize your progress and take pride in your accomplishments. Share your achievements with others. Brag a little. The recognition and support of those around you is nurturing. Rosemarie Rossetti

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Here are some measures of progress

• Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma. Benjamin De Cassere
• The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little. Franklin D. Roosevelt
• The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. George Bancroft
• We should so live and labor in our time that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.  Henry Ward Beecher
• It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies. Theodor W. Adorno
• Progress is discovering what you can do without. Marty Rubin
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Make spiritual progress

• It would be idle to say that life is a steady progression in happiness. But it is most certain that in the natural course of things a healthy soul grows continually richer until its latest day on earth. George S. Merriam
• Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface. Marianne Williamson
• The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. Ramana Maharshi
• The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy. Rabindanath Tagore
• The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility. Swami Sivananda
• There should be a balance between material and spiritual progress, a balance achieved through the principles based on love and compassion. Tenzin Gyatso (The 14th The Dalai Lama)
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Progress can have its dark side …

• Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress–in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news. Ken Wilber
• Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. Norbert Wiener
• Do you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go from house to car to office to car to wherever, with the heater on, and the defroster on, protected from the rain and the cold? It hasn’t been much longer than that we’ve had lighting for streets. Think of all that darkness, all that world out there, all that mystery that we’ve turned into well- lighted concrete bunkers, safe and warm and dull. Sheri S. Tepper
• The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of perpetual Growth – with a capital G. ‘Progress’ in our nation has for too long been confused with ‘Growth’; I see the two as different, almost incompatible, since progress means, or should mean, change for the better – toward social justice, a livable and open world, equal opportunity and affirmative action for all forms of life. And I mean all forms, not merely the human. The grizzly, the wolf, the rattlesnake, the condor, the coyote, the crocodile, whatever, each and every species has as much right to be here as we do. Edward Abbey
• So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. Henry George
• Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. Russell Baker
• I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction. John Steinbeck
• As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence. Alex Campbell
• Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools. Karl Kraus
• What we call ‘Progress’ is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. Havelock Ellis

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… especially technological progress

• Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Leonard Huxley
• It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. Albert Einstein
• All our lauded technological progress — our very civilization – is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. Albert Einstein
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External progress needs to be accompanied by moral progress

• Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened. Madame de Stael
• Flaubert didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together. Julian Barnes
• Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines. Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Gandhi
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Progress in knowledge must be accompanied by meaning and purpose

• The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more in detail the world we see and its evolution. What matters in a world-view is to grasp the meaning and purpose of everything, and that we cannot do. Albert Schweitzer
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Progress and simplicity

• Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. Thor-Heyerdahl
• We make progress by eliminating things, by removing the superfluous. Steve Jobs
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Progress and freedom

• The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress. Ernest Renan
• All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. George Bernard Shaw
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• If you’re tired of taking one step forward and two steps back, just turn around. That way you’ll be going forward in reverse. Jarod Kintz
• All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.  Butler’s Law of Progress
• Confucius say even a turtle only makes progress when it sticks its neck out.  Confucius
• If medicine has made so much progress in the last 30 years, how come I felt better 30 years ago? Alex Karras
• If pro is the opposite of con what’s the opposite of progress?  Paul Harvey
• Is it a progress if a cannibal is using a knife and fork?  Stanisław Jerzy Lec
• My psychiatrist and I are making real progress. He’s taken all my little fears and turned them into one big phobia.
• Progress: When it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic that it does to drive to the office.
• Progress is made by lazy men looking for an easier way to do things.
• Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.  Benjamin Decasseres
• Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God. Henry Louis Mencken
• Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long. Ogden Nash
• Progressing from nowhere to nothing and leaving only a greasy taste in the mouth as a reward.  Rob Vaux
• Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.  Aldous Huxley
• The length of a progress report is inversely proportional to the amount of progress.  Sweeney’s Law
• The progress of science varies inversely with the number of journals published.  Parkinson’s Sixth Law
• The reports on human progress are beginning to come in and some are a little discouraging.   Ashleigh Brilliant
• There are four things that hold back human progress – ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.  Charles J.C. Lyall
• What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. Sigmund Freud
• What we call “Progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. Havelock Ellis

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