Quotes About Progress

The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

Without challenges, the human body will soften. We thrive when we push our boundaries, reach goals, and blast personal records. We perform better, we look better, and we feel alive.

We strive toward a goal, and whether we achieve it or not is important, but it's not what's most important. What matters is how we move toward that goal.

Get out of your own way. Often, we're our own worst enemy when working towards our goals.

Goals are like the gas in your car, you may go in many different directions after you fill up, but with out the gas you are not going anywhere

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.

Without goals, training has no direction.

Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.

A goal is not just about what you accomplish. It's about what you become.

I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.

Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?

You can't create a new reality with the same personality.

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal.

I've never competed in powerlifting. But my goals weren't to be a powerlifter. My goals were to pack on size and get big, big, big.

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them you immediately begin to create momentum.

I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.

People are happiest when they're trying to achieve goals that are difficult but not out of reach.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.

He who reaches all his goals has probably not chosen them high enough.