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Definition of Progress
Progress

A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance

In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc.

In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.

In business of any kind; as, the progress of a negotiation; the progress of art.

In knowledge; in proficiency; as, the progress of a child at school.

Toward ideal completeness or perfection in respect of quality or condition; -- applied to individuals, communities, or the race; as, social, moral, religious, or political progress.

A journey of state; a circuit; especially, one made by a sovereign through parts of his own dominions.

To make progress; to move forward in space; to continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on; as, railroads are progressing.

To make improvement; to advance.

To make progress in; to pass through.

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Progress Quotations

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Barack Obama

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.
Robert Musil

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Bruce Barton

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.
Frederick Douglass

Progress Translations

progress in Danish is fremskridt
progress in Dutch is verbetering, vooruitgang, beterschap
progress in German is Fortschritt, fortschreiten, Fortschritt
progress in Italian is avanzamento
progress in Latin is progressio, tractus
progress in Portuguese is progresso
progress in Spanish is progreso
progress in Swedish is utveckling, framsteg

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