Journey of Growth: Inspirational Quotes on Progress

Welcome to Quotes About Progress, your source for inspiration and motivation. Discover a curated collection of quotes from influential thinkers, leaders, and visionaries, all centered around the theme of progress. Whether you’re seeking encouragement to keep moving forward in your personal growth journey or looking to ignite change in your community, our handpicked selection of quotes will uplift and empower you. Let these words propel you toward a brighter future.

Quotes About Progress And Growth

Personal growth is about progress, not perfection.

Whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.

Always concentrate on how far you have come, rather than how far you have left to go. The difference in how easy it seems will amaze you.

The secret of making progress is to get started.

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

I’ll go anywhere as long as it’s forward.

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.

Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals.

Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.

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.

If you want to experience significant progress toward your goal, you need to be intentional about the work you’re doing every day.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

A little progress every day adds up to big results.

Slow, steady progress is better than daily excuses.

Some quit due to slow progress. Never grasping the fact that slow progress is progress.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Little progress is better than no progress at all. Success comes in taking many small steps. If you stumble in a small step, it rarely matters. Don’t gift wrap the garbage. Let little failures go.

Failure is an unavoidable part of life, and embracing it is essential to our journey to success. It’s not an endpoint; it’s merely a pit stop.

Failure is success in progress.

Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid.

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.

Just because you aren’t making progress as fast as you think you should does not mean you aren’t making progress. Keep going.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Don’t compare your progress to that of others. We need our own time to travel our own distance.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Allow yourself to be proud of yourself and all the progress you’ve made. Especially the progress that no one else can see.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

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

Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you’ve always done things.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goals requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing towards what will be.

You need to place the right people in your life, and you need to make sure that the way in which you live your life and the environment in which you do is in and of itself is one that is conducive to your progress, and if it’s not, you need to do everything
within your power to change it.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Actively recognizing progress towards your goal will ultimately end up inspiring you and have you pushing even harder.

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.

Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be… If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

Quotes About Progress And Moving Forward

The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. – Carol Dweck

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity. – Jay Samit

I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint, and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. – Oprah Winfrey

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. – Louis Pasteur

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. – Larry Bird

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. – Winston Churchill

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. – Brian Tracy

Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it. – John Wooden

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. – Brian Tracy

The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Abraham Lincoln

You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better. – Jim Rohn

Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn

The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be. – Carol Dweck

You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not at all. – Brian Tracy

You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way. – Carol Dweck

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. – Steve Jobs

Become the change you want to see—those are words I live by. – Oprah Winfrey

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. – Carol Dweck

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure. – Christian D. Larson

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act. – Theodore Roosevelt

I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could. – Carol Dweck

Belief in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy. – Norman Vincent Peale

In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty. – Norman Vincent Peale

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. – A.A. Milne

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. – Benjamin Spock

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. – Hal Borland

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. – Dale Carnegie

First and foremost, let us remember that change has never been quick. Change has never been simple, or without controversy. Change depends on persistence. Change requires determination. – Barack Obama

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path. – Mahatma Gandhi

Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice—continuous effort. – Bruce Lee

Your thoughts make you what you are; by changing our thoughts we can change our lives. – Dale Carnegie

If you find yourself lacking in persistence, this weakness may be remedied by building a stronger fire under your desires. – Napoleon Hill

Persistence isn’t very glamorous. If genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the 1 percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other 99 percent. – Susan Cain

Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence. – Zig Ziglar

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive. – Dale Carnegie

Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence. – John C. Maxwell

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent. – Steve Martin

In every human endeavor, persistence is everything. – Joan Rivers

Let’s not imitate others. Let’s find ourselves and be ourselves. – Dale Carnegie

When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations and the value of hard work and persistence. – Nicholas Sparks

What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don’t see the danger. – Wangari Maathai

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. – Elbert Hubbard

You can make an audience see nearly anything if you yourself believe in it. – Mary Renault

You can’t do your best when you’re doubting yourself. If you don’t believe in yourself, who will? – Michael Jackson

Have passion for what you do; believe in yourself and your product and your customer; persevere; delegate; listen. Have fun. Today, I add: “Do good.” – Richard Branson

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing. – Mark Twain

Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself. – Oprah Winfrey

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe. – Blaise Pascal

I attribute my success to this—I never gave or took any excuse. – Florence Nightingale

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise. – Jessica Savitch

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. – Robert Collier

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success. – Eddie Cantor

Every failure is a step to success. – William Whewell

A minute’s success pays the failure of years. – Robert Browning

All our dreams can come true—if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping. – Julia Margaret Cameron

Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it. – Steve Maraboli

It’s a lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. – Muhammad Ali

The greater the obstacle, the greater the glory in overcoming it; and difficulties are but the maids of honor to set off the virtue. – Molière

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. – Thomas Paine

The better your attitude and the harder you work, the luckier you get. – Robert G. Allen

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. – Colin Powell

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. – Paramahansa Yogananda

For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. – Mary Kay Ash

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. – Max Beerbohm

If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain. – Dolly Parton

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King Jr.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now. – James Baldwin

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal. – Aberjhani

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. – Thomas H. Palmer

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere. – Frank Clark

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

The only time you should ever look back is to see how far you’ve come.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. – Maya Angelou

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. – Ernest Hemingway

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow. – Carrie Fisher

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. – Abraham Maslow

We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are. – Oprah Winfrey

When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be. – Elliot Page

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass

Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you. – Nedra Glover Tawwab

Self Progress Quotes

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw

Small progress is still progress. – Anonymous

Little by little becomes a lot. – Anonymous

Passion. Purpose. Progress. – Anonymous

A little progress every day adds up to big results. – Satya

Strive for progress, not perfection. – Anonymous

Don’t compare your progress to that of others. We need our own time to travel our own distance. – Anonymous

Progress is not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. – Khalil Gibran

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. – Frank Zappa

Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid. – Joyce Meyer

Always be a work in progress. – Emily Lillian

Slow, steady progress is better than daily excuses. – Robin Sharma

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goals requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. – Martin Luther King

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals. – Jim Rohn

Work hard for you and your own goals. Progress will come. – Anonymous

Progress is not inevitable. It’s up to us to create it. – Anonymous

Failure is success in progress. – Albert Einstein

Allow yourself to be proud of yourself and all the progress you’ve made. Especially the progress that no one else can see. – Anonymous

Comfort is the enemy of progress. – P. T. Barnum

Make measurable progress in reasonable time. – Jim Rohn

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. – Plato

Some quit due to slow progress. Never grasping the fact that slow progress is progress. – Jeff Olson

Consider what a long way you’ve come. – Anonymous

A lack of focus leads to a lack of progress. Focus. Grind. Grow. – Anonymous

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. – Alfred A. Montapert

Whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. – Martin Luther King

Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. – Frederick B. Wilcox

The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant. – Orison S. Marden

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. – Michael John Bobak

If you want to experience significant progress toward your goal, you need to be intentional about the work you’re doing every day. – Anonymous

Delay is the enemy of progress. – Eliot Spitzer

All progress depends on the unreasonable man. – George Bernard Shaw

There are only two options: Make progress or make excuses. – Anonymous

What we think, we become. – Buddha

Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own. – Bruce Lee

The only journey is the journey within. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. – Viktor Frankl

What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. – Confucius

We must become the change we want to see. – Mahatma Gandhi

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. – Will Durant

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill

A master lives in the world of transformation, not the world of loss and gain. – Dr. John Demartini

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. – Chinese Proverb

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. – Herbert Otto

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. – Abd El -Kader

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. – Dale Carnegie

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness. – Publilius Syrus

Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back. – Babe Ruth

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. – Rene Descartes

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow. – Doug Firebaugh

If you aren’t making any mistakes, it’s a sure sign you’re playing it too safe. – John Maxwell

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. – Thomas Watson, Sr.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. – Roger Babson

I’ve always tried to go one step past wherever people expected me to end up. – Beverly Sills

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. – Michael Korda

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T. S. Eliot

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. – African Proverb

Success is a journey, not a destination. – Ben Sweetland

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. – Robert Cushing

The highest reward for one’s toil is not what one gets for it, but what one becomes by it. – John Ruskin

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. – Lloyd Jones

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is. – Marcel Proust

Those at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there. – Marcus Washling

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. – Shakespeare

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. – Bertrand Russell

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. – Ronald Osborn

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never makes a mistake never made a discovery. – Samuel Smiles

We only become what we are by the radical and deep -seated refusal of that which others have made of us. – Jean -Paul Sartre

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? – Robert Schuller

Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly. – Cecil B. De Mille

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Ryun

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self -sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. – John Burroughs

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. – Samuel Johnson

One must have strategies to execute dreams. – Azim Premji

The path to success is to take massive, determined action. – Anthony Robbins

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do. – Menander

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. – Aristotle

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. – Miguel de Cervantes

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see. – Taoist proverb

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic. – Jean Sibelius

The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self. – Edward Bulwer -Lytton

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. – Thales

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences. – Jawaharlal Nehru

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desire to reach their potential. – John Maxwell

Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity. – Reed Markham

Success is not measured by what a man accomplished, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. – Charles Lindbergh

Success is not so much what we have, as it is what we are. – Jim Rohn

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. – Swami Sivananda

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted. – David Bly

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. – Jim Rohn

The secret of success is consistency of purpose. – Benjamin Disraeli

Quotes About Progress In Society

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march? Providence is with us, and no earthly power can.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

All progress means war with society.

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car.

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By a universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common is the property for the moment of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society.

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.

The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

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.

The extension of women’s rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

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

The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.

The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.

In conclusion, quotes on progress serve as guiding lights, reminding us of the enduring human spirit to strive, evolve, and innovate. They encapsulate the essence of growth, urging us to embrace change, overcome obstacles, and pursue excellence. From the wisdom of historical figures to the insights of contemporary thinkers, these quotes inspire us to push beyond boundaries, challenge conventions, and make meaningful contributions to the world. As we reflect on these words, let us harness their power to fuel our journey forward, continuously seeking improvement, enlightenment, and advancement. For in the tapestry of progress, each quote weaves a thread of inspiration, guiding humanity towards a brighter future.