Quotes About Progress

you can't keep improving if you fear others will disapprove of what you're doing.

Every accomplishment is just a stepping-stone to the next challenge; as soon as they've hit their target, they're already stalking their next conquest.

Do you truly want to get even with everyone, or do you really want to get ahead of them? Why stand next to anyone when you can push beyond them? In the game of basketball, you get around someone so you can get past them. Play this game the same way. You go for the win, you don't settle for a tie.

Do. The. Work. Every day, you have to do something you don't want to do. Every day. Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable, push past the apathy and laziness and fear. Otherwise, the next day you're going to have two things you don't want to do, then three and four and five, and pretty soon, you can't even get back to the first thing. And then all you can do is beat yourself up for the mess you've created,

If you want to go somewhere new, you have to throw out the tired, old map and stop traveling the same road to the same dead end.

We never saw obstacles or problems, we only saw situations in need of solutions.

Everything you do in the gym becomes easier when you stop expecting it to be easy.

You can't make things better until you stop me asking them worse.

Bottom line if you want success of any kind: you have to be comfortable being uncomfortable.

What are you not doing today that you were doing when I first met you?

Every year, improve your knowledge résumé through self-education. Otherwise, you'll have to claw, scratch, or repeat your way to semi-success in life.

It's okay to make mistakes; just make new ones!

Here's the deal: 90 percent of the time, whatever you do will turn out to be a mistake, but that's still better than doing nothing, which is always a mistake.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

Age is a scalpel, cutting out bits of what we are. Second after second. Day after day. Year after year

One of the biggest differences between leaders and followers is that leaders are learners.

And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

We're not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We're not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We're the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we've crowded in here to hide from the future and the past. We know what's up – the future looms straight ahead like a black wrought-iron gate and the past is charging after us like a badass Doberman, only this one doesn't have any letup in him.

it's fine to live in the now. but the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. i'm going to start making them count.

it's not too late for me.

The best thing about now, is that there's another one tomorrow.

You cannot keep your eyes on the bloody footprints you have left behind you. You must keep your eyes on where you are going.

Keep the day ahead of you, that's what the old man used to say.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is.