Quotes about Progress

But to hit that target, we must come off the mountain, go through the valley, and begin to climb the next slope. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.

We can't do everything at once, but, by God, we can do something at once!

We can't stay here." When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act.

The direction you are currently traveling—relationally, financially, spiritually, and the list goes on and on—will determine where you end up in each of those respective arenas.

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

If the source were simply a few behavioral habits, you would have conquered them already.

To get from where we don't want to be to where we do want to be requires two things: time and a change of direction.

Geographically speaking, you can't get to where you want to be unless you know where you are the begin with. You need a reference point. Similarly, you can't get to where you want to be in life until you are willing to admit where you are to begin with. Self-deception makes that next to impossible.

We only get one shot at every season of life. Whether or not we learned anything becomes evident in the seasons that follow.

One of our pastors, John Hambrick, has a saying that we've adopted organization-wide. He says, "We walk toward the messes." In other words, we don't feel compelled to sort everything or everyone out ahead of time. We are not going to spend countless hours creating policies for every eventuality.

We have a tendency to measure ourselves against the people around us. They become our point of reference. A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. …if we are wise enough to listen, they will help us go further, faster.

One gets to the place one wants to be the same way one got to the place one didn't want to be—by putting one foot in front of the other and moving in a specific direction.