Quotes About Progress

Consider failure as just a comma in the middle of a sentence that tells the story of your life.

The journey starts with a single step—not with thinking about taking a step.

Instead of writing down what you're going to do (chances are you've been doing that your whole adult life anyway, and it doesn't make you any better at doing them), write down at the end of the day what you did do that day.

Sometimes you need to slow down to go fast.

People on the success curve live a life of responsibility. They take full responsibility for who they are, where they are, and everything that happens to them.

Any time you see what looks like a breakthrough, it is always the end result of a long series of little things, done consistently over time.

There is a natural progression to everything in life: plant, cultivate, harvest.

I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. You get busy living, or get busy dying." —Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption

In the process of learning to walk, did you spend more time falling down or standing up? If you were anything like most babies, you failed (fell) far more than you succeeded (walked). It didn't matter: you were on the path of mastery.

The predominant state of mind displayed by those people on the failure curve is blame. The predominant state of mind displayed by those people on the success curve is responsibility.

it is just as easy to step back into the habit of succeeding as it is to slip into the habit of failing.

It's never too late to start. It's always too late to wait.

Because what you need to transform your life is not more information.

There are three simple, essential steps to achieving a goal: Write it down: give it a what (clear description) and a when (timeline). Look at it every day: keep it in your face; soak your subconscious in it. Start with a plan: make the plan simple. The point of the plan is not that it will get you there, but that it will get you started. 17.

The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step." —Chinese proverb I

You are either improving or diminishing in personal and professional value.

One last thing about past and future—and I have saved the best for last. You can't change the past. You can change the future. Would you rather be influenced by something you can't change, or by something you can?

Rome ne s'est pas faite en un jour. (Rome wasn't built in a day.)" —ancient French proverb

The slight edge can carve the Grand Canyon. It can do anything. But you have to give it enough time for the power of time to kick in. The right choices and wrong choices you make at the moment will have little or no noticeable impact on how your day goes for you. Nor tomorrow, nor the next day. No applause, no cheers, no screams, no life-or-death

No matter what you have done in your life up until today, no matter where you are and how far down you may have slid on the failure curve, you can start fresh, building a positive pattern of success, at any time. Including right now. But you need to have faith in the process, because you won't see it happening at first.

Here's a slight edge action guaranteed to change your life: read just ten pages of a good book, a book aimed at improving your life, every day.

The single most important thing I can tell you about the Slight Edge is this: it's already working, right now, either for you or against you. So don't wait.

The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step." —

make a simple roadmap for each one, consisting of three elements: 1) your dreams for that area, expressed as goals—specific, vivid, and with a timeline; 2) a simple plan to start (and when I say simple think: "find Germans"); and 3) one simple daily discipline that you will commit to doing each and every day from now on.