Quotes About Progress

Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. ... If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

As soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day. It's the mood and the purpose at the inception of each day that are the important facts in charting your course for the day. We can always square away for a fresh start, no matter what the past has been.

With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.

Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it.

Everyone expects to go further than his father went; everyone expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart-to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.

I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

The good composer is slowly discovered, the bad composer is slowly found out.

Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.

Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. . . If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. . . . for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they begin.

Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end.

It is a matter first of beginning-and then following through.

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

It's the steady, constant driving to the goal for which you're striving, not the speed with which you travel, that will make your victory sure.