Quotes About Progress

Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish.

Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

Leaders grow; they are not made.

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

After you plant a seed in the ground, you don't dig it up every week to see how it is doing

When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained.

Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

The world will not wait for us.