<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Progress - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64543]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63228]]></link><description><![CDATA[All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text;  And embryo good, to reach full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48370]]></link><description><![CDATA[From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text;  And embryo good, to reach full stature,   Absorbs the evil in its nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48371]]></link><description><![CDATA[New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Spiral!" the memorable Lady terms Our mind's ascent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48372]]></link><description><![CDATA["Spiral!" the memorable Lady terms Our mind's ascent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat; descent and fall  To give us is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48373]]></link><description><![CDATA[That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat; descent and fall  To give us is adverse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue. [Lat., Quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, usque sequor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48374]]></link><description><![CDATA[What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue. [Lat., Quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, usque sequor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48375]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48366]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To look up and not down, To look forward and not back,  To look out and not in--and  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48367]]></link><description><![CDATA[To look up and not down, To look forward and not back,  To look out and not in--and   To lend a hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is The law of life, man is not  Man as yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is The law of life, man is not  Man as yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man prepared has half fought the battle. [Sp., Hombre apercebido medio combatido.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48358]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man prepared has half fought the battle. [Sp., Hombre apercebido medio combatido.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon,  Night and all her stars;   'Twixt the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48359]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon,  Night and all her stars;   'Twixt the east and western bars    Round they journey,     Come and go!      We go with them!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48360]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48361]]></link><description><![CDATA[And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48362]]></link><description><![CDATA[With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48363]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past,  A fifth shall close the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past,  A fifth shall close the Drama with the day;   Time's noblest offspring is the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is art But life upon the larger scale, the higher,  When, graduating up in a spiral line  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48354]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is art But life upon the larger scale, the higher,  When, graduating up in a spiral line   Of still expanding and ascending gyres,    It pushed toward the intense significance     Of all things, hungry for the Infinite?      Art's life--and where we live, we suffer and toil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's;  God is, they are,   Man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's;  God is, they are,   Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be,  And do the best to climb, and get to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48346]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt can only be removed by action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt can only be removed by action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Westward the star of empire takes its way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Westward the star of empire takes its way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by a winding stair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48351]]></link><description><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by a winding stair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who moves not forward, goes backward ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10259]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who moves not forward, goes backward]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8815]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8815</guid></item></channel></rss>