Quotes About Progress

You're either changing your life or you're not. No waiting for this or that or better weather or other hurdles. Hurdles are the change.

The view is better when it is earned.

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.

Reflect first upon that great law of our nature, that exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.

Kimberly: You know what they say about uphill battles. Michael: You can't talk while you're waging them?

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived — forwards.

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

There's only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.

Experience is climbing the ladder built from your mistakes.

There must be a tomorrow, because my life overflows today.

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

February makes a bridge and March breaks it.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

But freedom is not enough.

It is only the first step that is difficult.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life.

Word by word the big books are made.

Visualize your long-term goals to paint your short-term actions on the canvas of now.

Stumbling over all those little moments of grief is just a part of moving forward.

Grief moves at its own pace.

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

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.

Burn, burn all the books which teach hatred! Exalt labor and love! Let us create rational human beings, capable of crushing under foot the futile magnificence of barbaric glories, and of resisting those blood ambitions of nationalism and imperialism which have crushed their brothers.