Quotes About Progress

I'm not saying he's stingy. But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness. It's not that either. He's from a generation that never expected to get midway up the ladder so when he got there he was too stunned to dare to climb higher.

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.

Every habit is either moving us toward or away from God.

Gaining freedom a little bit at a time is a biblical principle.

Define failure as feedback.

The distance is nothing it's only the first step that is difficult.

You can't think yourself into new ways of acting; You only can act yourself into new ways of thinking.

The bottom line is that if you are in hell, the only way out is to go through a period of sustained misery. Misery is, of course, much better than hell, but it is painful nonetheless. By refusing to accept the misery that it takes to climb out of hell, you end up falling back into hell repeatedly, only to have to start over and over again.

The great thing about treating borderline patients is that it is like having a supervisor always in the room.

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

the actions that have contributed to our well-being

The arc of the moral universe is long, and it bends toward justice.

Charles Goodyear had patented the first rubber condom in 1844, and by the 1870s, there was such widespread use of intrauterine devices and diaphragms that the number of women dying in childbirth had dropped by 30 percent in twenty-five years.

People don't get better without follow-up. So let's get better at following up with our people.

If you want to change anything about yourself, the best time to start is now. Ask yourself, "What am I willing to change now?" Just do that. That's more than enough. For now.

If we're satisfied with our life—not necessarily happy or delighted that we've exceeded our wildest expectations, just satisfied—we yield to inertia. We continue doing what we've always done. If we're dissatisfied, we may go to the other extreme, falling for any and every idea, never pursuing one idea long enough so that it takes root and actually shapes a recognizably new us.

going backwards is not about creating change. It's about understanding.

Improvement is hard. If it were easy, we'd already be better.

Successful people, however, believe there is always a link between what they have done and how far they have come—even when no link exists. It's delusional, but it is also empowering.

Understanding the past is perfectly admissible if your issue is accepting the past. But if your issue is changing the future, understanding will not take you there.

You can continue doing what you're doing for a long time. But you'll never become the person you want to be.

We can't admit that we need to change—either because we're unaware that a change is desirable, or, more likely, we're aware but have reasoned our way into elaborate excuses that deny our need for change.

The most reliable predictor of what you will be doing five minutes from now is what you are doing now.

Getting better is its own reward. If we do that, we can never feel cheated.