Quotes About Progress

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency should head the list. —John C. Maxwell

And as novelist Robert Louis Stevenson advised, "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

You don't say how slim the odds are but rather how you can improve the odds.

Successful people focus their thinking on progress

El problema que tienen la mayoría de las personas es que quieren que las cosas sigan siendo iguales y al mismo tiempo que mejoren. Obviamente, eso no es posible. Si verdaderamente quiere crecer, comprométase no sólo a aceptar el cambio, sino a buscarlo.

we are today where our thoughts have brought us, and we will go tomorrow where our thoughts take us.

Leaders are change agents, not change resisters.

Only when you make the right changes to your thinking do other things begin to turn out right.

You will never get to the point that you no longer make mistakes, that you no longer fail. But that's okay.

as the Chinese proverb asserts, "Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still." —

Josie Bisset afirmó: «Los sueños vienen en tallas grandes para que podamos crecer en ellos».

People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem.

The price of success is failure.

People approach any task with one of two mindsets: what I call the "Be-Good" mindset, where your focus is on proving that you have a lot of ability and already know what you're doing, and the "Get-Better" mindset, where your focus is on developing ability. You can think of it as the difference between wanting to prove that you are smart, and wanting to get smarter.

Don't ever be too impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But, take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's probably not really a change.

1. The Assumption Gap—"I Assume That I Will Automatically Grow

People who make growth their goal—instead of a title, position, salary, or other external target—always have a future.

Successful leaders help their people find their right seats. Sometimes that requires moving people around to find where they make the greatest contribution. Sometimes it means trying and failing. As a leader, you have to take it all in stride. Positioning people correctly is a process, and you have to treat it that way.

Playwright George Bernard Shaw asserted, "A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

We are all failures—at least, all the best of us are. —J. M. BARRIE W

The best way to develop rational, well-balanced confidence is to go after a few victories immediately following a failure.

If we're not failing or making mistakes, it means we're playing it too safe.

A leader who loves the status quo soon becomes a follower.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.