inspiring quotes - progress sayings
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
-Milan Kundera
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
-Henry Steele Commager
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
-Mark Twain
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
-Oscar Wilde
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
-Don Marquis