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Quotes About Progress

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
~ Tom Kite
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.
~ Bo Sanchez
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I never waste time looking back.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.
~ Deepak Chopra
It's not like once you achieve success, you're done, you know. It's like, still enjoy doing what you're doing, that's the key for me.
~ Norah Jones
It's not about success, it's about progress.
~ Tony Robbins
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.
~ Og Mandino
Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.
~ William Feather
Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the trick; his final success came when he broke away entirely and tried new methods.
~ John W. Campbell
It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
~ Stephen Brennan
People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now.
~ Denis Waitley
Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.
~ John C. Maxwell
Ideas, more than money, are really the currency for success.
~ Eli Broad
We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.
~ John C. Maxwell
I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
~ Jeanne Moreau
I look at failure as the fertilizer to success.
~ Thomas Jones
I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
~ Havelock Ellis
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
~ Charles Buxton
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
~ Bill Gates