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No Progress Quotes

There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.
- James Allen

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.
- Michael Arad

The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
- Roland Barthes

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
- Jeff Bezos

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
- William Blake

Without contraries there is no progression.
- William Blake

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
- Edward De Bono

If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
- Juan De La Cruz

I use this as a paradigm for our whole attitude toward life, what you did was you worked very hard, you try to understand and try to direct these complicated, powerful forces and at the very end of the struggle you've made no progress at all. That upon discovering that, you've raised to a lofty moral height, and you've accepted your fate, and somehow went on.
- Philip K Dick

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
- Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
- Frederick Douglass

Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.
- John Wooden

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
- John Wooden

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
- George Gurdjieff

Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.
- Laurell K Hamilton

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.
- Christopher Hitchens

Sunrise is a necessary concomitant of long railway journeys, like hard-boiled eggs, illustrated papers, packs of cards, rivers upon which boats strain but make no progress.
- Marcel Proust

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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