Quotes About Progress

Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.

If it's working, keep doing it. If it's not working, stop doing it. If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.

All I had to do was keep turning left.

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture the soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal's rhythm of rest and activity.

Skate to where the puck is going and not to where it's been.

Learn to think continentally.

What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.

Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have a special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

All great reforms require one to dare a lot to win a little.

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

It takes time to be a success.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our today, to do our work with more force than ever before.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

We're still not where we're going, but we're not where we were.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.