Progress Quotes - Page 30

• Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.

  James Bryant Conant

  Turtles, Sticks, Necks

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• Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.

  Robert Breault

  Mistake, Different, Definitions

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• Keep records of your fitness progress throughout your training. Chart all of the food you eat, the exercises you complete, and even the amount of sleep you get each night. Refer back to your records to see where things went right or went wrong.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Sleep, Exercise

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• Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Sleep, Self, Organization

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living”, p.30, M-y books ltd

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• It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Women, Care, Humankind

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• I was heartened to hear the President say that as we make progress on the ground, and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels.

  Howard Coble

  President, Able, Levels

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• The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

  Joseph McCabe

  Atheist, Play, Training

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• Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.

  David Suzuki

  Years, Environmental, Extinction

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• At the most subtle level, your inner intelligence is steadily progressing along the corridors of eternity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Levels, Eternity

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• Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.

  Ronald A. Heifetz

  Leadership, People, Community

  Ronald A. HEIFETZ, Ronald A Heifetz (2009). “Leadership Without Easy Answers”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• Rather than becoming discouraged, know that encountering a wall is proof of the progress that you have made so far.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Wall, Becoming, Discouraged

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• It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to be safe...that there can be...stability of value and...economic progress.

  Calvin Coolidge

  People, Evil, Safe

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• However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.

  Hideki Tojo

  Communication, Technology, Preparation

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• Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Keys, Support, Fundamentals

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• I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Believe, Flower

  Sir Winston Churchill (1961). “The unwritten alliance: speeches 1953-1959”

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• The incredible story of progress that is America has always been built by those who ask why, what if, and why not. Our schools must begin instilling that wonder in our children again so that their generation will unite around the next great project of our time, whether it be declaring America energy independent or launching the next great technological revolution.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Children, School

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• Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it

  Tony Blair

  Real, Growth, Quality

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• If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground

  Lester R. Brown

  Principles, Doe, Economy

  Lester R. Brown (2013). “Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth”, p.77, Routledge

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• You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.

  Wendell Berry

  Men, Community, Dying

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change.

  Cullen Murphy

  Fall, Makeup, Rome

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• Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.

  Peter Camejo

  Party, America, People

  "Raw Data: Foxnews.com Interviews Peter Camejo". Foxnews.com Interview, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2004.

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• Many bodybuilders sell themselves short. Erroneously attributing their lack of satisfactory progress to a poverty of the requisite genetic traits, instead of to their irrational training and dietary practices, they give up training. Don't make the same mistake

  Mike Mentzer

  Giving Up, Mistake, Practice

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• We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

  Simon Sinek

  Innovation, Embrace, Explanation

  Twitter post from Aug 17, 2011

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• Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.

  William Wilberforce

  Exercise, Men, God Love

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• Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

  Carl Jung

  Errors, Important, Conditions

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1966). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Freud and psychoanalysis”

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