Progress Quotes

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” ~ Will Rogers

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving” ~ Albert Einstein

“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” ~ Plato

“Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.” ~ Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Don’t worry about making mistakes. In fact, the more mistakes you make, the more progress you are making. Just don’t repeat the same mistakes.” ~ Mike Michalowicz

“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.” ~ Matthew Syed

“The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress. Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal is to extend one’s mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one’s capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person.” ~ Matthew Syed

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ~ George Bernard Shaw (via Rufus Muturi 9/6/11)

“Don’t despair over what is still left to learn, but marvel at the progress you have made. Growth is a positive thing so keep on keeping on.” ~ Unknown

“All great speakers were bad speakers first.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

“It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.” ~ Jim Rohn

“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.” ~ Thomas Henry Huxley

“You have to keep training if you want to improve. It’s a fair game. If you practice, you improve. You can’t buy it.” ~ Chow Hung-Yuen

“The reward of a thing well done is having done it.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still.” ~ Linda Brakeall

“Do not fear mistakes – fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes.” ~ Rolfe Kerr

“We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes,
but I think it’s more important to learn from successes.
If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale