Progression

Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Unless we progress, we regress.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
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Edward Gibbon
“All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.”
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Thomas A. Edison
“Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.”
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Frank Tyger
“Progress is not created by contented people.”
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Indira Gandhi
"The power to question is the basis of all human progress."
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Henry Ward Beecher
“Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.”
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Don Marquis
“The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.”
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Confucius
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."
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Barry Diller
"Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go."
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Plato
“Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
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Swedish Proverb
“When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward.”
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Author Unknown
“Today's progress was yesterday's plan.”
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Chinese Proverb
“Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The never-ending task of self improvement.”
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Oliver Cromwell
“He who stops being better stops being good.”
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Isaac Asimov
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
“If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.”
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Lou Holtz
“If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.”
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Indira Gandhi
“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”
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Kahlil Gibran
“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”
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Marie Curie
“I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.”
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Anthony D'Angelo
“Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.”
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Charles Caleb Colton
“Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.”
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Robert M. Pirsig
“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.”
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Anthony Robbins
“Commit to CANI! -- Constant And Never-ending Improvement.”
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Jim Rohn
“What you become directly influences what you get.”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
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Author Unknown
“Most people are in favor of progress, it's the changes they don't like.”
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Sean Gregory Derrick
“No one knows everything, but everyone can learn something.”
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Les Brown
“Perfection does not exist - you can always do better and you can always grow.”
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Author Unknown
“The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement.”
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Eden Phillpotts
“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen.”
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Author Unknown
“Nobility doesn't lie in surpassing the other man, but in surpassing the previous self.”
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William Ellery Channing
“Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.”
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C.R. Lawton
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow.”
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Lee Iacocca
“The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.”
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Marion G. Romney
"While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet."
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Progression and achievement belong to those who have learned to use the opportunity of now. Our strides of today will determine our locations tomorrow.”
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Louis Kronenberger
“The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.”
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Samuel Butler
“All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.”
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Paul J. Meyer
"Do a little more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in"
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Abraham Maslow
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."
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Henry Ford
“There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.”
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George Bernard Shaw
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
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Clare Booth Luce
"In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed."
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Ann McGee Cooper
“I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. –
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Margaret Fuller
"Celebrate any progress. Don’t wait to get it perfect."
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Thomas A. Edison
“Restlessness is discontent--and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
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Calvin Coolidge
“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good.”
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Author Unknown
“The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.”
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James Allen
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.”
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Christian Nevell Bovee
“The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.”
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Andrew Carnegie
“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.”
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Shirley Chisholm
“You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”
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James Freeman Clarke
“We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.”
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Charles Caleb Colton
“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.”

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Tryon Edwards
“People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.”
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Thomas J. Watson
“Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.”
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Greg Werner
“Make progress one time and it makes you happy. Make progress day after day, week after week and it makes you a champion.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.”
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Harold Mayfield
“Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving.”
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Richard A. Nelson
“When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath.”
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Author Unknown
“Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.”
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.”
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Henri Frederic Amiel
“He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.”
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Gilbert Arland
“When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.”
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Ella Wilcox
“Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.”
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Nadine Gordimer
“Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.”
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Henry J. Kaiser
“I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.”
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Joan Borysenko
"Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve."
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Barbara Hall
"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark."
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Aldous Huxley
“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterward, when you've worked on your own corner.”
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Aristotle
“It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.”
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Pablo Picasso
“To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.”
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Charles Haanel
"The only way to keep from going backward is to keep going forward. Eternal vigilance is the price of success. There are three steps, and each one is absolutely essential. You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do."
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John A. Widtsoe
“A beginning must be made somewhere and corner by corner, department by department, space by space, all will be known and conquered. In the end, all must be explored, and whether one begins in the east or the west cannot matter much. The big concern is the extent to which a man offers himself, mind and body, to his worthwhile work. Upon that will growth depend."
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Sir Winston Churchill
"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."
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Edward W. Smith
"When something aggravating, such as a siren, car alarm, etc, bothers you, that is a good time to check to see if what you were doing at that moment, was something that will take you away from your aggravations and towards your goals. So the next time something aggravates you, use that as a check to see if your actions are going in the right direction, or not. In that way, life's aggravations can become good reminders to stay on the course towards a better life."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.”
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