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Quotes About Progress

We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.
~ Vladimir Lenin
The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest
~ Stewart Udall
Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.
~ Jean M. Auel
Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.
~ Louis Pasteur
The thing I'm proudest of is probably like any sort of work I've done in the LGBTQ space.
~ Troye Sivan
When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.
~ Willem Dafoe
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
~ Thomas Huxley
Things are working out... towards their dazzling conclusions.
~ Ama Ata Aidoo
Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
~ James Whistler
Some things are going to work, some aren't. But there's always something new going on, so it's fun to watch and see what's coming next.
~ Chris Jericho
I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.
~ Rashid al-Ghannushi
Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.
~ Anthony Doerr
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's hard to know at any stage whether a show is going to work or not. Every few years, a different trend comes along.
~ Aidan Turner
Opportunity is often dressed up in work clothes.
~ Croft M. Pentz
I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
~ Aaliyah
I believe in fate, I believe in hard work, and I feel like if I just keep marching, the path will kind of appear before me.
~ Tatyana Ali
If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.
~ Anna Neagle
To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.
~ Noah Webster
If we don't acknowledge and accept where we are failing, then we'll never do the work that it takes to make it right for US.
~ T.I.
I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.
~ Gil Kane
We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.
~ Frederick Sommer
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
~ John F. Kennedy