Quotes About Progress

Wishing for things to change wouldn't make them change. Hoping for improvements wouldn't bring them.

ARE YOU CONTENT WITH THE STATUS QUO, OR ARE YOU WILLING TO TAKE RISKS TO GAIN HIGHER LEVELS OF ACHIEVEMENT?

Cuando las personas cometen errores, generalmente hacen una de tres cosas como respuesta a ellos: deciden no volver a cometer nunca otro error, lo cual es imposible. Permiten que su error los convierta en cobardes, lo cual es necio. O deciden aprender de su error y aplicar la lección a su vida, lo cual es beneficioso.

Education makes all the difference.

Are you at the head of your class? If so, then you're in the wrong class.

stop asking, "How long will it take?" and begin to wonder, How far can I go?

Failure is inevitable; learning is optional

The mind will not focus until it has clear objectives. But the purpose of goals is to focus your attention and give you direction, not to identify a final destination.

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who left well enough alone.

Leadership expert Peter Drucker says, "The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes . . . otherwise he is sure to be mediocre." Mistakes really do pave the road to achievement.

Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle asserted, "A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road." What a great image. Purpose gives you drive. It shows you a destination. It paints a picture of your future. It energizes you. And it makes obstacles and problems seem small in comparison to its importance.

As you and I grow and improve as leaders, so will those we lead. We need to remember that when people follow us, they can only go as far as we go. If our growth stops, our ability to lead will stop along with it.

To limit our lives to our past experiences is to cheat ourselves from developing our potential and increasing our possibilities for success. Mark Twain said, "If a cat sits on a hot stove, it will never sit on a hot stove again. Of course, it will never sit on a cold one either." Forget your past failures and begin to enlarge your expectations for tomorrow.

No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level.

Most people don't know this, but it's easier to go from failure to success than from excuses to success.

The main reason we weren't making progress is when focusing on people's weaknesses. If you want to develop people, you must help them discover and build upon their strengths. That's where people have the most potential to grow.

And nothing is more effective when it comes to reaching potential than commitment to personal growth.

El problema es que la mayoría de las personas dan demasiada importancia a los acontecimientos y subestiman el poder de los procesos.

growth compounds and accelerates if you remain intentional about it.

You are out of your comfort zone: Growth requires risk. Ronald E. Osborne stated, "Unless you do something beyond what you've already mastered, you will never grow.

Si no cambiamos la dirección en la que vamos, probablemente terminemos en el lugar al que nos dirigimos».

There is a willingness to change: Clayton G. Orcutt declared, "Change itself is not progress, but change is the price that we pay for progress.

ARE YOU STRIVING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, OR HAVE YOU BEEN COASTING?

Only by practicing and developing your thinking daily will your ideas get better. Your thinking ability is determined not by your desire to think, but by your past thinking.