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Quotes About Progress

Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.
~ Robin Sharma
The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.
~ Rollo May
You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.
~ Roseanne Barr
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
~ Samuel Butler
Personally, I'm waiting for caller IQ.
~ Sandra Bernhard
The only purpose of starting is to finish
~ Seth Godin
It's just a question of eliminating obstacles.
~ Sheryl Crow
It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific
~ Thomas Jefferson
I throw just as hard as ever - it just takes twice as long to get there.
~ Warren Spahn
The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
The future and where we're going can be very terrifying, in some ways, but it's also really inspirational.
~ Zachary Levi
She hasn't run faster than herself before
~ Zola Budd
Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.
~ Albert Einstein
The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
~ Anatole France
Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.
~ Andy Grove
Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.
~ Annie Dillard
Hidden paths can't be walked without moving obstacles.
~ Anthony D. Williams
If you learn from a loss you have not lost.
~ Austin O'Malley
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
~ Ben Jonson
We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.
~ Bernard of Chartres
If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.
~ Boyd K. Packer
Don't get bogged down with all the details of how it's going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.
~ Brian J. White
The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.
~ Brian Tracy