Quotes about Progress

Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

So decide now that you are worthy of living as a full-grown man who is making progress, and make everything that seems best be a law that you cannot go against. And if you meet with any hardship or anything pleasant or reputable or disreputable, then remember that the contest is now and the Olympic games are now and you cannot put things off any more and that your progress is made or destroyed by a single day and a single action

For it is always true that to whatever point the perfecting of anything leads us, progress is an approach towards this point.

But what says Socrates?—One man finds pleasure in improving his land, another his horses. My pleasure lies in seeing that I myself grow better day by day.

If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see.