Quotes About Progress

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Richter said, 'Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.' 

experience is comparable to fashion; an action that proved successful today will be unworkable and impractical tomorrow. Only principles endure

I will consider each day's effort as but one blow of my blade against a mighty oak.

to have goals without a plan and a time limit was as useless as having no goals at all.

What you wish can only be accomplished by changing one person at a time.

I am the end product of thousands of years of evolution; therefore, I am better equipped in both mind and body than all the emperors and wise men who preceded me.

A morbid concentration on one's grievances with life will only make one's problems more severe. Far better to focus on one's successes, to gain confidence from seeing oneself winning out. Then one can forge ahead in life.

The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.

I will remember the ancient law of averages and I will bend it to my good. I will persist with knowledge that each failure to sell will increase my chance for success at the next attempt. Each nay I hear will bring me closer to the sound of yea. Each frown I meet only prepares me for the smile to come. Each misfortune I encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. I must have the night to appreciate the day. I must fail often to succeed only once.

each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better 

Today my old skin has become as dust. I will walk tall among men and they will know me not, for today I am a new man, with a new life.

Take great comfort in knowing that all great feats are accomplished one small step at a time

when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.

For the former, activity, any kind of activity, was an end in itself; for the latter, activity was but a progress toward the true end, which was rest, and peace of mind. Action was to be undertaken only when equilibrium was disturbed.

Homo sapiens is a spider trying to crawl out of a basin. The higher he crawls, the steeper the hill. Sooner or later, down he goes. So long as he's on the bottom, he can get along quite nicely, but as soon as he starts climbing, he begins to slip. And the higher he climbs the farther he falls. It doesn't matter which direction he tries. He can make civilization after civilization, but every time, long before he begins to be really civilized, skid!

So age succeeds age, and dream succeeds dream, and of the joy of the dreamer no man knoweth but he who dreameth. Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.

You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself.