Quotes About Progress

Successful people fail their way to the top.

Don't try to figure out the whole race. Just figure out where to put your foot for the starting line. Just start.

No, this time I needed to sit down and start carefully, methodically, systematically sorting through the mixed up pieces of my shattered life.

by adding those little grams of success, one at a time (and by not adding more weight to the failure side), you will eventually and inevitably begin to shift the scales in your favor.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.

Like a penny over time, reading ten pages a day would compound, just like that, and create inside you a ten-million-dollar bank of knowledge.

No success is immediate. Nor is any failure instantaneous. They are both products of the Slight Edge.

That is the difference between the 5 percent and everyone else. They know how to use the slight edge to get what they want in life. No, let's amend that slightly: they know how to use the slight edge to get what they want in life—and they do it. They do the thing, and gain the power.

Great success often starts from a tiny beginning—but there has to be a beginning. You have to start somewhere. You have to do something. If you add just 1 percent of anything—skill, knowledge, effort—per day, in a year it will have more than tripled. But you have to start with the 1 percent. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined, or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

little steps, compounded, do make a difference.

Everything you do, every decision you make, is either building your dream or building someone else's dream. Every single thing you do is either leading you away from the masses—or leading you away with the masses. Every single thing you do is a slight edge decision.

Because time will either promote you or expose you.

The power of a plan is not that it will get you there. The power of a plan is that it will get you started. People

For things to change, you've got to change. For things to get better, you've got to get better. It's easy to do. But it's easy not to do, too.

The same activities that take us from failure to survival would also take us from survival to success—if we would just keep doing them.

They do the thing, and gain the power.

you've reached a place where many years of simple errors in judgment have compounded over time, and you're feeling it.

Life is doing. If you aren't doing, you're dying.

here's how real success is built: by the time you get the feedback, the real work's already done.

I have not failed. I've simply discovered ten thousand ways that don't work.

Simple daily disciplines—little productive actions, repeated consistently over time—add up to the difference between failure and success.

Every incomplete promise, commitment, or agreement saps your strength because it blocks your momentum and chokes off your ability to move forward, progress, or improve.

Write your dreams down; make them vivid and specific; give them a concrete timeline for realization;

Over the course of his career, Abraham Lincoln had a staggering record of lost elections and public-office failures. For the ungainly lawyer from Illinois, failure was not only an option, it was practically his specialty. If it hadn't been, he would never have made it to the White House, and who knows what the United States would look like today. Or if there would even be such a thing as the United States. And