Quotes About Progress

Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.

Instead of running from what you don't want, walk with commitment toward what you desire. Focus on where you are going rather than being obsessed with where you have been.

The new year always brings us what we want Simply by bringing us along—to see A calendar with every day uncrossed, A field of snow without a single footprint.

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.

Once people see that you improve you life if you are educated, then education becomes a valuable tool and people want it.

Our loving Heavenly Father wants us to become more like him. God understands that we get there not in an instant, but by taking one step at a time.

Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank

Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

My favorite body part? My feet.They're not pretty but they get me where I want to go.

I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.

It's a great feeling to have accomplished what I have, but I want to do more.

I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

Train at your current fitness level, or slightly above — not where you want to be.

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.

Breathing deeply and releasing fear will help you get to where you want to be.

There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

People who don't want to weather some of the rough periods miss out on something better.

I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got.