Quotes About Progress

Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

Fear drives you and makes you better.

Neither fear nor resist change - cultivate it.

One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.

So many times, people are afraid to start something because of fear of failing. But it can be fabulous - because it leads you to the next thing.

Do not fear the digital world, it will not kill us all.

Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need an affirmative agenda.

A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important.

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.