Quotes About Progress

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.

I don't mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I've done as well as I possibly could.

it's not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

What ANY person in the world can learn, almost ALL people in the world can learn. If provided with proper learning conditions.

Effort gives meaning to life.

Mott saw anti-slavery, peace, and women's rights as part of the same reform impulse to liberate the individual from the bonds of tradition, custom, and organized religion.

We gather others to follow the good when our knowledge of the way is so strong that doubt can no longer invade our inner serenity; when we no longer feel any need to convince, contend with, or woo people; when we no longer try to employ giant steps or to skip steps in order to make swift progress; when we no longer try to achieve something without working for it.

the path is more important than the goal

Indeed, the goal is only to follow the path, for there is no "there" to get to; there is only the path, and the job of treading upon it as well as we can.

And Whoever is in charge of all this will walk with us, and will help us to sort out the mysteries and help us to complete the healing. Walls will fall and we will see each other more clearly - all of us, the Mormons and the Catholics and the Jews and the Moslems and the straights and the gays and the women and the men. Confusions will lift like fog lifts from the Golden Gate Bridge on a good summer day, and we will each see our next step and will take it.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now you're growing. Tomorrow you'll shine.

Sometimes it has to feel worse before it feels better.

You can never see a plant grow, but they do.

no matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail—or if you're not the best—it's all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they're doing regardless of the outcome . They're tackling problems, charting new courses, working on important issues. Maybe they haven't found the cure for cancer, but the search was deeply meaningful.

Don't judge. Teach. It's a learning process.

John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren't a failure until you start to blame. What he means is that you can still be in the process of learning from your mistakes until you deny them.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

Finding #2: Those with the growth mindset found setbacks motivating. They're informative. They're a wake-up call.