Quotes About Progress

It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.

Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

I know I will never let myself be complacent in life.

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

I must say, I am trying to live my life with a sharpie marker approach. You can't erase the strokes you've made, but each step is much bolder and more deliberate.

If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.

Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.