I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
—Russell Baker
Never discourage anyone… who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
—Samuel Butler
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Unknown
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
—Unknown
Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.
—Unknown
It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.
—Unknown
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
—Thor Heyerdahl
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
—Tom Stoppard
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.
—Oscar Wilde