Quotes About Progress

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

Dreams come a couple sizes too big so you can grow into them.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future.

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be... better.

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

I always thought of running as just dancing forward.

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

You never came out the way you came in.

God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

I still look at myself and want to improve.

Destroying things is much easier than making them.