Quotes About Progress

Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

Everyday ... life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

Every fact that is learned becomes a key to other facts.

Man errs as long as he struggles.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and Ell show you somebody who has never achieved much.

Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something.... One fails forward toward success.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I have been doing.

Admitting error clears the score, and proves you wiser than before.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you.

Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.