Quotes about Progress

Colonel Cathcart was impervious to absolutes. He could measure his own progress only in relationship to others, and his idea of excellence was to do something at least as well as all the men his own age who were doing the same thing even better.

It is true that there have been other religions with millions of adherents, but it is also true that the existence and progress of the Church is something unique in history to say nothing of the fact that Christianity has attracted to itself the profoundest thinkers of the human race, and is in no way hindered by the ever-advancing tide of human knowledge. G. Thomas

There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.

There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.

No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.

If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.

I'm not where I need to be, but thank God i'm not where I used to be.

Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.

Today is a brand new beginning for me!

I may not be where I need to be but at least I am not where I used to be.

Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.

Habakkuk 3:19 says that the way we develop hind's feet (a hind is an animal that can climb mountains swiftly) is "to walk [not to stand still in terror, but to walk] and make [spiritual] progress upon" the "high places [of trouble, suffering or responsibility]!" The way God helps us make spiritual progress is by being with us to strengthen and encourage us to "keep on keeping on" in rough times. It's easy to quit; it takes faith to go through.