Quotes About Progress

Organizations rarely progress in absence of well defined codes of conduct and system to ensure that these are strictly adhered to. Same is true for society.

Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

They're here, they're queer, get hip to them. ~ B. Ruby Rich

The amateur doesn't appreciate the need for experimentation. He wants his experts to know.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on.

Men build society and society builds men.

If you can doubt at points where other people feel no impulse to doubt, then you are making progress.

In order to design successful habits and change your behaviors, you should do three things. Stop judging yourself. Take your aspirations and break them down into tiny behaviors. Embrace mistakes as discoveries and use them to move forward.

We live in an aspiration-driven culture that is rooted in instant gratification. We find it difficult to enact or even accept incremental progress.

How long does it take for habits to grow to their full expression? There is no universal answer. Any advice you hear about a habit taking twenty-one or sixty days to fully form is not entirely accurate. There is no magic number of days.

In contrast, you can't achieve an aspiration or outcome at any given moment. You cannot suddenly get better sleep. You cannot lose twelve pounds at dinner tonight. You can only achieve aspirations and outcomes over time if you execute the right specific behaviors.

Stop judging yourself. Take your aspirations and break them down into tiny behaviors. Embrace mistakes as discoveries and use them to move forward.

Shifting identity helps you consider other new habits you might not have thought of doing that will move you closer to your aspiration.

The essence of Tiny Habits is this: Take a behavior you want, make it tiny, find where it fits naturally in your life, and nurture its growth.

You select one of your aspirations, then come up with a bunch of specific behaviors that can help you achieve your aspiration.

In contrast, you can't achieve an aspiration or outcome at any given moment.

Despite all this, go big or go home is the way many people approach change. As a result, most people don't know how to think tiny.

We live in an aspiration-driven culture that is rooted in instant gratification. We find it difficult to enact or even accept incremental progress. Which is exactly what you need to cultivate meaningful long-term change.

She knows now that she can do almost anything she wants to—as long as she starts small.

Write your aspiration inside the cloudlike shape shown in the graphic. Then start filling in the boxes with specific behaviors.

Make the behavior so tiny that you don't need much motivation.