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Progress Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.”
Camille Paglia
2.
“Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was still scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!”
Camille Paglia
3.
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”
J.P. Morgan
4.
“Decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”
J.P. Morgan
5.
“The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.”
J.P. Morgan
6.
“When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.”
John D. Rockefeller
7.
“The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.”
John D. Rockefeller
8.
“Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.”
John D. Rockefeller
9.
“Nothing man has discovered or imagined is to be named with the steam engine. It has no fellow. Franklin capturing the lightning, Morse annihilating space with the telegraph, Bell transmitting speech through the air by the telephone, are not less mysterious – being more ethereal, perhaps in one sense they are even more so – still, the labor of the world performed by heating cold water places Watt and his steam engine in a class apart by itself.”
Andrew Carnegie
10.
“All is well since all grows better.”
Andrew Carnegie
11.
“Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.”
Andrew Carnegie
12.
“An iron railroad would be a cheaper thing than a road of the common construction. Here lay in a few words the idea from which our railway system has sprung.”
Andrew Carnegie
13.
“The world’s civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour.”
Andrew Carnegie
14.
“How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.”
Guy Kawasaki
15.
“Good enough is good enough. There is time for refinement later. It’s not how great you start – it’s how great you end up.”
Guy Kawasaki
16.
“Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?”
Charles Lamb
17.
“Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?”
Charles Lamb
18.
“In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.”
Charles Lamb
19.
“Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.”
Margaret Fuller
20.
“Do not mistake starting slow as starting small.”
Ankur Warikoo
21.
“If you are unhappy with where you are in life right now, do not wait to find out what you should be doing. Move out of where you are in life!”
Ankur Warikoo
22.
“A plan is the only way to get to any point in life. If you do not have a plan, you do not have any chance of getting anywhere.”
Ankur Warikoo
23.
“No step is small, as long as it is headed in the direction of where we want to go.”
Ankur Warikoo
24.
“A year from now, you will wish you had started today. Start today.”
Ankur Warikoo
25.
“The pleasure you derive by blaming someone else, is misleading. You are still where you do not want to be.”
Ankur Warikoo
26.
“You are expecting things too soon from yourself. Give yourself time to take things step by step.”
Ankur Warikoo
27.
“Boring process == slow and steady progress”
Ankur Warikoo
28.
“We feed off the feeling of progress. If you are struggling to find motivation, it’s most likely because you are struggling to feel progress.”
Ankur Warikoo
29.
“If the climb is tough, but needs to be done, then ignore the mountain in front of you. Take the smallest possible step forward to get you started.”
Ankur Warikoo
30.
“Ones who continue to grow in life are not the ones who make the best decisions. Instead, they are quick to change their decisions, once they stop growing.”
Ankur Warikoo
31.
“We often confuse milestones with progress. When you complete a year at work, that’s a milestone. That may not mean progress.”
Ankur Warikoo
32.
“It is crazy how far you can go without stopping, if you love what you do.”
Ankur Warikoo
33.
“Don't make your lack of preparation as an excuse to not start!”
Ankur Warikoo
34.
“The reason it needs motivation, is because you do not feel progress when you do it.”
Ankur Warikoo
35.
“Do it. Try it. Fix it.”
Sam Walton
36.
“I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been.”
Sam Walton
37.
“You can’t just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.”
Sam Walton
38.
“When somebody made a mistake – we talked about it, admitted it, tried to figure out how to correct it, and then moved on to the next day’s work.”
Sam Walton
39.
“What we guard against around here is people saying, ‘Let’s think about it.’ We make a decision. Then we act on it.”
Sam Walton
40.
“I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.”
Sam Walton
41.
“The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there’s only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.”
Jimmy Carter
42.
“Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.”
Jimmy Carter
43.
“We cannot ignore our gift of the future.”
Jimmy Carter
44.
“Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.”
Alvin Toffler
45.
“The great growling engine of change – technology.”
Alvin Toffler
46.
“Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.”
Alvin Toffler
47.
“If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.”
Alvin Toffler
48.
“It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.”
Alvin Toffler
49.
“Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways.”
Alvin Toffler
50.
“Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.”
Alvin Toffler
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