Quotes About Progress

PROCRASTINATION. The habit of putting off until tomorrow that which should have been done last year.

Keep in mind, always, the principle of evolution through the operation of which everything physical is eternally reaching upward and trying to complete the cycle between finite and infinite intelligences.

FELICIDADE ESTÁ EM FAZER, NÃO SÓ EM TER

That which we want most is always in the embryonic distance of the future. Our power to acquire is always a decade or so behind our power to DESIRE! And, if we catch up with the thing we want we no longer want it!

It has many advantages, the main one being that it will often save from one to five years of time in reaching a chosen goal.

No man's education is ever finished. A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot mentally develop.

I discovered, from the analysis of over twenty-five thousand people, that men who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of forty, and more often they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of fifty

Pessoas que abrem mão de parte de seu tempo livre para fazer cursos raramente ficam na parte de baixo por muito tempo. Fazendo esses cursos, elas abrem caminho para a subida, removem muitos obstáculos do trajeto e atraem o interesse daqueles que têm o poder para ajudá

Cease your complaining and fretting; none of these things which you blame are the cause of your poverty; the cause is within yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy. The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot; shows that you lack that faith which is the ground of all effort and progress.

When you do your work better To-day than Yesterday you realize your genuine Capacity and know that there is no actual Perfection except the Perfection of doing better To-day than Yesterday.

every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage

If we try something and like the results, we repeat the action.

We who are in this race for riches, should be encouraged to know that this changed world in which we live is demanding new ideas, new ways of doing things, new leaders, new inventions, new methods of teaching, new methods of marketing, new books, new literature, new features for the radio, new ideas for moving pictures.

Non aspettare, non arriverà mai il momento perfetto. Inizia con gli strumenti che hai a disposizione. Condizioni migliori si presenteranno lungo la strada. Semplicemente inizia.

rules through which you may form the habits you desire:

Tolerance, and an open mind are practical necessities of the dreamer of today. Those who are afraid of new ideas are doomed before they start. Never has there been a time more favorable to pioneers than the present. True, there is no wild and woolly west to be conquered, as in the days of the Covered Wagon; but there is a vast business, financial, and industrial world to be remoulded and redirected along new and better lines.

At the beginning of the formation of a new habit, put force and enthusiasm into expressing what you want to become. Feel what you think.

is much harder at first than it will be afterward. At the beginning, make each path as clear and as deep as you can, so that you can readily see it the next time you wish to follow it.

Success comes by inches, not by leaps or bounds. Success is the pushing forward each day by hard work.

Keep your attention firmly concentrated on your new path-building and forget all about the old paths.

Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations. Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike. Drive me into the girders that hold a skyscraper together. Take red-hot rivets and fasten me into the central girders. Let me be the great nail holding a skyscraper through blue nights into white stars.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. I tell you yesterday is a wind gone down, a sun dropped in the west. I tell you there is nothing in the world only an ocean of to-morrows, a sky of to-morrows.

I speak of new cities and new people I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. I tell you yesterday is a wind gone down, a sun dropped in the west. I tell you there is nothing in the world only an ocean of tomorrows. a sky of tomorrows. I am a brother of the cornhuskers who say at sundown: Tomorrow is a day." - Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers

Here I saw a city rise and say to the peoples round world: Listen, I am strong, I know what I want.