#progress

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#fatal #growth #idea #inside #leaving

All progress is experimental. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#progress

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#ideas #implementing #make #progress #sidelines

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#developing #evil #good #great #great hope

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#constitute #constructive #did #direction #federalism

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. ↗

— Marie Curie

#i #neither #nor #progress #swift

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#constant #country #inevitable #progressive

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#days #discussing #i #i have learned #learned

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#failure #first #i #man #me

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress. ↗

— Millard Fillmore

#mistake #progress #strange