The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
George Orwell

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
George Orwell

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.
Epictetus

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.
Carl Jung

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Darwin

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. Truman

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Woodrow Wilson

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Vladimir Lenin

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
Paul Harvey

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
Albert Camus

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
Andy Rooney

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Calvin Coolidge