Inspirational quotes
Progress
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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
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It's not about success, it's about progress.
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Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do—learn, commit, and do—and learn, commit, and do again.
~ Stephen R. Covey Quotes from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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The story of the entrepreneur… is the story of forward progress, of pursuing one's dreams and goals no matter how outlandish they seem to others. The entrepreneur, like the pioneer, pushes boundaries in search of what's new, what's next. Sometimes, he brings the whole society with him, rushing forward together into a next phase of our communal human life.
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Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.
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As used in economics the term "capital" would be defined as follows: Capital refers to resources withheld from immediate consumption in the expectation of greater future returns. However controversial a topic this has been, capital has been the main–if not the only–way of achieving progress, even in violently anticapitalist, socialist countries. A dam, a hospital, a university, a cathedral, or a national park cannot be built without using up resources that would be easier to consume immediately, and none of them would be built at all unless they were believed to provide some greater returns in the future.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes from Good Business
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Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.
~ Roger McDonald Quotes from The Message of a Master
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The secret of making progress is to get started. The secret to starting is to divide your complex, overwhelming task into small, manageable tasks, and then start the first.
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The releasing of attachment to object and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in my human progress toward being.
~ Marlo Morgan Quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable on persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
