Definition of Progress

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Progress

A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance

In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc.

In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.

In business of any kind; as, the progress of a negotiation; the progress of art.

In knowledge; in proficiency; as, the progress of a child at school.

Toward ideal completeness or perfection in respect of quality or condition; -- applied to individuals, communities, or the race; as, social, moral, religious, or political progress.

A journey of state; a circuit; especially, one made by a sovereign through parts of his own dominions.

To make progress; to move forward in space; to continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on; as, railroads are progressing.

To make improvement; to advance.

To make progress in; to pass through.

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Progress Quotations

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Thomas Jefferson

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Barack Obama

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Ronald Reagan

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis

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.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Kahlil Gibran

Progress Translations

progress in Danish is fremskridt
progress in Dutch is verbetering, vooruitgang, beterschap
progress in German is Fortschritt, fortschreiten, Fortschritt
progress in Italian is avanzamento
progress in Latin is progressio, tractus
progress in Portuguese is progresso
progress in Spanish is progreso
progress in Swedish is utveckling, framsteg

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