Quotes About Progress

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.

If you don't place your foot on the rope, you'll never cross the chasm.

He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.

Sometimes we look so intently toward the pinnacle that we stumble over the steps leading to it. Development begins just where you are.

Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.

Don't wait for your "ship to come in," and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.

You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be, It exacts a full look at the Worst.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark!

If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go.

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.