Definition of Progressive
Progressive
Of or pertaining to the Progressive party.
Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde.
Improving; as, art is in a progressive state.
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Progressive Quotations
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.
C. S. Lewis
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
Mahatma Gandhi
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
Theodore Roosevelt
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'
Colin Powell
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
Earl Nightingale
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
Benjamin Disraeli
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
Paul J. Meyer
Progressive Translations
progressive in French is progressif
progressive in German is fortschrittlich
progressive in Spanish is progresivo
progressive in Swedish is progressiva
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