Quotes About Progress

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

All great achievements require time.

Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.

Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

You always want to be better than you are. No matter what, I think that's important.

Every wall is a door.

The area where we struggle the most is often the area of our greatest effectiveness

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.

For better to come, good must stand aside.