Quotes About Progress

Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow.

It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

I am in competition with no one. I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone. I am simply trying to be better than the person I was yesterday.

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.

I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.

I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.

If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.

The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.

Evolution leads the way through desire.