1,930 Quotes About Progress

Time is not a single train, moving in one direction at a constant speed. Every so often it meets another train coming in the opposite direction, from the past, and for a short while that past is with us, by our side, in our present.

Always strive to be a better person. No matter what. Do not try to be better than your fellow man but to be better than you were yesterday. Compare yourself only to your past you. Any bit of progress that you make of improving yourself, no matter how small, makes a positive impact in your life and in the lives of others around you. A little bit every day. Try.

In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple old world grows very confusing. But rarely, very rarely novel.

A conservative culture will resist change and treat progress as a virus

There is an equation that I like to use when looking at my life's progress:Current Worth - Past Worth = Progress or Regression

If you have attributes that you could use less productively last year than you can this year (meaning you are more productive), then you have made progress. The opposite equates to regression.

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

Those who make excuses, don't make progress.

Expansion is not a matter of physical travel, it's a matter of mental travel. How much have you traveled inside your mind, that’s the question!