Quotes about Progress
One step of obedience can open your eyes. One step of obedience can reverse the curse. One step of obedience can begin a new chapter in your life!
- Mark Batterson
It's our past problems that prepare us for future opportunities. So someday we may be as grateful for the bad things as the good things because the bad things helped prepare us for the good things.
- Mark Batterson
The leading cause of failure is mismanaged success. And the leading cause of success is well-managed failure.
- Mark Batterson
We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.
- Mark Batterson
Most of us overestimate what we can accomplish in two years, but we underestimate what we can accomplish in ten years.
- Mark Batterson
If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different.
- Mark Batterson
Before going wherever God wants to take you next, is there some place you need to go back to? Sometimes the way forward is backward. "The farther backward you can look," said Winston Churchill, "the farther forward you can see."
- Mark Batterson
Goals have a way of refocusing your life. They give you purpose and a target to shoot for. They are the compass of our dreams, helping us set a steady course. Goals comprise direction and progress. When we lose sight of our goals, we tend to lose sight of ourselves and who we are trying to become, who God has made us to be.
- Mark Batterson
If you want to see God move, make a move.
- Mark Batterson
Do the best you can with what you have where you are. Success is not circumstantial. We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process. We talk about "doing" the will of God, but the will of God has much more to do with "being."
- Mark Batterson
Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.
- Mark Batterson
You are one habit away from getting into shape. You are one habit away from financial freedom. You are one habit away from mental health. You are one habit away from a happy, healthy marriage. You are one habit away from any goal you set. The only catch? It has to be a daily habit!
- Mark Batterson