Progress In Life Quotes

You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life.

Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .

It is the peaceful one who is observant. It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly. It is the peaceful one, therefore, who can conceive, for peace helps him to conceive. It is the peaceful who can contemplate; one who has no peace cannot contemplate properly. Therefore, all things pertaining to spiritual progress in life depend upon peace.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

The greatest progress in life is when you know your limitations, and then you have the courage to drop them.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life preserver, which sinks them. Nobody can drown in the ocean of reality who voluntarily gives herself up to the experience. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.