Progress Quotes

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  If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Change, Moving On

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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  Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• You cannot make progress without making decisions.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Decisions You Make, Decisions Made

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 10, 2017

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• There are two rules for achieving anything. Rule No. 1: Get started. Rule No. 2: Keep going.

  E. Howard Hunt

  Two, Achieve, Keep Going

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

  "Everybody's political what's what?" by George Bernard Shaw, Chapter XXXVII, (p. 330), 1944.

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  Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

  Mia Hamm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Real, Made

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ambition, Kingdoms, Should

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  The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Motivational, Confidence, Running

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Jan 03, 2017

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• True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Life, Perseverance, Teaching

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• Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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• Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.

  Horace Mann

  Struggle, Heart, Past

  Horace Mann (1895). “Helps to Self-culture”

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• Progress is impossible without change

  Walt Disney

  Impossible

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• It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Greatness, What Matters

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 02, 2016

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• Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Answers, Clarification, Greater

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• 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.

  Samuel Smiles

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

  Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Stones, Palaces, Grain

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• Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

  Charles Kettering

  New Year, Reality, Old Year

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• The best road to progress is freedom's road.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.176, Best Books on

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• Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

  Ayn Rand

  Progress Of Society, Civilization, Political

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

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• If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Long, Guides, Term

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.10, Best Books on

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• Nothing recedes like progress.

  e. e. cummings

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