Quotes about Progress
We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident people were confident long before they achieved anything.
- John Eliot
My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.
- Oprah Winfrey
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success.
- Rick Warren
It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you must compromise, compromise up.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.—Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)
- Samuel Beckett
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
- Barack Obama
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
- Napoleon Hill
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson