Quotes About Progress

Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key, and puts us at our best.

Set short term goals and you'll win games. Set long term goals and you'll win championships!

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

For me it's the challenge-the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.

The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things always have been done. ... I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.

I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done.

Unless in one thing or another we are straining toward perfection, we have forfeited our manhood.

I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.

You have to erect a fence and say, "Okay, scale this."

Growth is not concerned with itself.

If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

The biggest dog has been a pup.

The only cure for grief is action.

Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.