Quotes about Progress
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
The dead should not rule the living.
— Thomas Jefferson
Holding onto what was isn't healthy for what is.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
There comes a point in your life when you realize your hardest times are your best times, too—you will see the rainbow of your life.
— Roy Bennett