Quotes on Progress

“Each step upward makes me feel stronger and fit for the next step.” (Mohandas Gandhi)

“No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.” (John Stuart Mill)

“Change is not always progress……A fever of newness has been everywhere confused with the spirit of progress.” (Henry Ford)

“Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and regression, of evolution and dissolution.” (Goethe)

“The impulse to escape an untenable situation often prompts human beings not to shrink back but to plunge ahead.” (Eric Hoffer)

“Our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.” (George Eliot)

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