Progress Quotes - Page 8

• 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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  A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Inspirational, Wise, Travel

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• Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.

  T. D. Jakes

  Encouraging, Past, Next Level

  Twitter post from Nov 10, 2016

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• If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that's enough. And, if tomorrow you are a little bit better than you were today, then that's enough.

  David A. Bednar

  Yesterday, Self Improvement, Mormonism

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• Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Philosophy, Practice

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.11, Jaico Publishing House

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• Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

  Ossie Davis

  Motivational, Strength, Struggle

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

  Vinod Khosla

  Future, Science, Years

  "Vinod Khosla: In The Next 10 Years, Data Science Will Do More For Medicine Than All Biological Sciences Combined". techcrunch.com. September 11, 2013.

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Stones, Palaces, Grain

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• It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

  Millard Fillmore

  Change, Mistake, Presidential

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• The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

  John Glenn

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

  "Space All systems go for National Space Day". CNN, May 4, 2000.

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• I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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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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• Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Guarantees, Normalcy

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• He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wisdom, Three Things, Vices

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.214

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• Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

  George Eliot

  Literature, Heat, Friction

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.186, George Eliot

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• Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

  Marcus Garvey

  Moving, Humanity, Attraction

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, The Majority Press

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• A man prepared has half fought the battle.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Battle, Half

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1877). “Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote”, p.26

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• Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

  Samuel Smiles

  Moving, Kind, Moving Forward

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.74

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• I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, Past, Thinking

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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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• 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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• Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 24, 2016

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

  James Bryant Conant

  Motivational, Courage, Funny Inspirational

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

  Don Marquis

  Race, Life Sucks, Obstacles

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