Quotes about Progress
Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
- Samuel Johnson
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
- Henry Ford
The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
- Lou Holtz
Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
- Joyce Meyer
Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.
- Gloria Steinem
If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.
- Mike Posner
I'm always trying to think of ways to make something more efficient. If I have to do something once, that's fine. If I have to do it twice, I'm kind of annoyed. And if I have to do it three times, I'm going to try to automate it.
- Tobias Lutke
A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.
- Gordon Hinckley
It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.
- Tony Robbins
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
- Henry Ward Beecher