Quotes about Progress
people who are busy rowing seldom have time to rock the boat.
- John Maxwell
You can't change yesterday. You can't control tomorrow. But you can choose what you do today with the goal that those choices will make things better tomorrow.
- John Maxwell
And as novelist Robert Louis Stevenson advised, "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
- John Maxwell
Only when you make the right changes to your thinking do other things begin to turn out right.
- John Maxwell
You will never get to the point that you no longer make mistakes, that you no longer fail. But that's okay.
- John Maxwell
Success without a successor is ultimately failure.
- John Maxwell
IT'S THE JOB THAT IS NEVER STARTED THAT TAKES THE LONGEST TO FINISH.
- John Maxwell
People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem.
- John Maxwell
The price of success is failure.
- John Maxwell
People approach any task with one of two mindsets: what I call the "Be-Good" mindset, where your focus is on proving that you have a lot of ability and already know what you're doing, and the "Get-Better" mindset, where your focus is on developing ability. You can think of it as the difference between wanting to prove that you are smart, and wanting to get smarter.
- John Maxwell
Work Through Your Insecurities:
- John Maxwell
People who make growth their goal—instead of a title, position, salary, or other external target—always have a future.
- John Maxwell