Quotes About Progress

Journaling is the difference between learning and remembering. It's also the difference between forgetting and fulfilling our goals.

When we try to make things go faster, we usually slow things down. When

if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.

if you learn from every mistake, then there is no such thing as failure anyway.

Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.

One step of obedience can open your eyes. One step of obedience can reverse the curse. One step of obedience can begin a new chapter in your life!

Without it, I'm coasting. With it, I'm gaining momentum

It's our past problems that prepare us for future opportunities. So someday we may be as grateful for the bad things as the good things because the bad things helped prepare us for the good things.

The leading cause of failure is mismanaged success. And the leading cause of success is well-managed failure.

we tend to overestimate what we can accomplish in a year.

We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.

Most of us overestimate what we can accomplish in two years, but we underestimate what we can accomplish in ten years.

If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different.

Before going wherever God wants to take you next, is there some place you need to go back to? Sometimes the way forward is backward. "The farther backward you can look," said Winston Churchill, "the farther forward you can see."3

Goals have a way of refocusing your life. They give you purpose and a target to shoot for. They are the compass of our dreams, helping us set a steady course. Goals comprise direction and progress. When we lose sight of our goals, we tend to lose sight of ourselves and who we are trying to become, who God has made us to be.

If you want to see God move, make a move.

1. Do the best you can with what you have where you are. Success is not circumstantial. We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process. We talk about "doing" the will of God, but the will of God has much more to do with "being

Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.

You are one habit away from getting into shape. You are one habit away from financial freedom. You are one habit away from mental health. You are one habit away from a happy, healthy marriage. You are one habit away from any goal you set. The only catch? It has to be a daily habit!

The spiritual disciplines are art forms. Your first prayer will probably look like a kindergartener's painting. Of course, God still puts it on His refrigerator! But if you keep practicing prayer, your faith will become fluent. Living a Spirit-led life is a steep learning curve. It takes time—and by time, I mean decades, not days. You have to grow in the spiritual disciplines little by little. That's how you go from strength to strength. You keep benchmarking

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If you take thirty linear steps, you're ninety feet from where you started. But if you take thirty exponential steps, you've circled the earth twenty-six times!2 Faith isn't linear. Faith is exponential.

Fear can paralyze you, but you must start moving, do something, anything, even if it's wrong. Start moving, then the brain will take over.

I don't like to take a shit every day. But to stay healthy I have to. Sometimes I'm constipated, sometimes I have diarrhea. But I must shit or I'll die. So it is with the press; messy, undignified, but absolutely essential to a healthy nation. Unfortunately, some of the journalists are like hemorrhoids, they contribute nothing, block progress, and are a great pain in the ass.