Quotes About Progress

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Perfecting the past blurs your focus of the future.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present

True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.

Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

What's behind you doesn't matter.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.