Quotes About Progress

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

This life is a process of learning.

My life is better with every year of living it.

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.

For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.

Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Movement in new direction helps find new cheese.

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

I feel like my life now, it's only getting better, which feels nice.

The only person who is truly holding you back is you. No more excuses. It's time to change. It's time to live life at a new level.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

The biggest gap in your life is between what you know and what you do.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.