Non violent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity with arraying himself in vindictive force. Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. Calvin Coolidge quotes Progress in mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest. Patanjali quotes Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. Alfred North Whitehead quotes All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. Adlai E. Stevenson quotes Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. Charles Baudelaire quotes A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known. Bertrand Russell quotes Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. Walter Bagehot quotes All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure. Anonymous quotes |