progress - quotes

William Ralph Inge, 1860-1954

was an English author and Anglican prelate

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. “You forget,” said the Devil, with a chuckle, “that I have been evolving too.”

Plato, ca. 427 BC-ca. 347 BC

was a Greek author and philosopher in Athens

Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Franklin D(elano) Roosevelt, 1882-1945

was a 32nd president of US

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

(Frederic) Ogden Nash, 1902-1971

was an US humorist and poet

Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.

(Frederic) Ogden Nash, 1902-1971

was an US humorist and poet

Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long.

George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950

was an Irish dramatist and socialist

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

( “Man and Superman”, 1903 )