Quotes About Progress

You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.

the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

It's always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.

The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.

Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.

The elevator to success is out of order, but the stairs are always open.

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.

Work is changing for men as much as it is for women.

No great work of art is ever finished.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.