Quotes About Progress

If you are not satisfied with what is coming to you, start to work and change your mental attitude and mental states, and you will see a change gradually setting in.

My mentality is like a Samurai: They used to every day work on their technique to make themselves almost perfect. Because perfection is impossible, but every day, you get closer to perfection.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.

Taking your first title is much more complicated and more difficult; it takes years of work - from go-kart to Formula One. The second comes more easily, because you've already got the experience.

It's a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small, you don't know where it can lead.

The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.

Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems.

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

Don't be concerned with what you can't do. Work on what you can do - then count your blessings.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push.