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Quotes About Progress

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
~ Tacitus
Mistakes come from doing, but so does success.
~ John Wooden
Success is not a doorway, it's a stairway.
~ Dottie Walters
Failure is just a tax on the way to success. It is inevitable but it is not the whole story.
~ Michael Hyatt
There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
~ James Surowiecki
Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
~ Natalie Goldberg
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
~ Warren Bennis
Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.
~ Douglas Conant
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
~ Nadine Gordimer, Get a Life
There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.
~ Jill Scott
To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.
~ John McDonald
Don't worry about making mistakes. In fact, the more mistakes you make, the more progress you are making. Just don't repeat the same mistakes.
~ Mike Michalowicz
Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.
~ Wilferd Peterson
Success may result in winning, but winning does not necessarily mean you are a success.
~ John Wooden
The subsequent success levels, all the other stuff [after Trainspotting], it comes at a much higher level.
~ Irvine Welsh
Success begets more in television.
~ Grant Tinker
Success is failure inside out.
~ William Cranch Bond
This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
~ Boris Johnson
Never rest on past success. Create something better.
~ Ron Kaufman
Moving forward is not based upon your past; your future is exclusively determined by the decisions you make now, in this moment.
~ Mike Michalowicz
It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.
~ Martha Stewart
I guess that somehow I've survived as a professional guitar player. I've made it 16 years now and I feel like I'm just getting started. Variety is a secret to the success of that.
~ Monte Pittman
As I visualize the new, I become dissatisfied with the old.
~ Louis Tice