Quotes About Progress

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.

Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.

Enough shovels of earth ..........................a mountain. Enough pails of water ...............................a river.

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.

Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.

Men trip not on mountains, they trip on molehills.

Rotten wood cannot be carved

Our negative life situations are essential elements for us to fulfill our intended destiny. However, unless we possess the power of endurance to live through the dark of the night, we will not see the glory of daybreak.

Where I come from in the Eastern Region, life is still -- well, things are changing very fast but if one is interested, one can still see signs of what life used to look like.

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

He summarizes his approach to change in this simple phrase (inspired by Aristotle's "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."): "We are what we practice and we're always practicing something. Thus, to make changes we need to practice something new and different.

Gravity can also shape our emotional selves. Emotional baggage, for instance, is a form of gravity; we acquire more of it as we get older, and it weighs us down. The more emotional gravity we're fighting, the more force we require to move forward. And force moving against gravity creates a lot of friction. On

What did you guys fail at this week?" "If we had nothing to tell him, he'd be disappointed," Blakely said.

When you're at the beginning, don't obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there.

When people know the desired destination, they're free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there.

Just look for a strong beginning and a strong ending and get moving.

What have you failed at this week?

One way to motivate action, then, is to make people feel as though they're already closer to the finish line than they might have thought.

Rather than focusing solely on what's new and different about the change to come, make an effort to remind people what's already been conquered.

If you're struggling to make a transition, create a defining moment that draws a dividing line between Old You and New You.