He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
James Russell Lowell

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
Thomas Mann

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
Mercedes McCambridge

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.
Jennifer Lopez

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

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Madame de Stael

Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

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

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
Thor Heyerdahl

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Emile M. Cioran

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
William Howard Taft

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
Alfred North Whitehead

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Alfred North Whitehead

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.
Joseph A. Schumpeter

All progress is experimental.
John Jay Chapman

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Henry Ellis

I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
Dan Brown

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry B. Adams