And you keep thinking, why are you making mistakes? And what makes it even worse is that you always keep comparing yourself with someone better than you, which makes you frustrated.
If you are feeling like that now, please do not put all the blame on yourself anymore! Everybody has their own experiences, stories, and timelines. Everyone needs to move at their own pace, and no need to be depressed when things don’t go your way.
You may not be successful for now, but you will be learning and progressing yourself to be a better person. Trust me; life is not a race but indeed a journey. It’s okay to move slower than others as long as you keep progressing and developing yourself.
And believe me, one day, the goals you are longing for, will appear in front of you. Thus, to encourage you to keep progressing in your life, here are 60 progress quotes for you.
Progress Quotes
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Edward Everett Hale
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” – Kofi Annan
“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” – Harold Wilson
“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.” – Barack Obama
“Believe me, my journey has not been a simple journey of progress. There have been many ups and downs, and it is the choices that I made at each of those times that have helped shape what I have achieved.” – Satya Nadella
“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.” – Cesar Chavez
“It’s crazy how fast time flies and how things progress.”
– Nathan Chen
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.” – Thor Heyerdahl
“You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” – Shirley Chisholm
“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.” – Nicholas M. Butler
“Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.” – Li Keqiang
“Don’t look too far into the future, just look at tomorrow. One day at a time. Can you win tomorrow? Can you make progress? The answer is yes, you have a choice and tomorrow you’re going to win.” – Joe Wicks
“Together, we have the power to inspire, connect, and deliver on new opportunities and rich experiences that can open doors to innovation and progress while growing global economies and increasing well-being.” – Tae Yoo
“If you are not constantly improving and learning, then you are going to be stuck and not progressing.” – Gareth Southgate
“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.”
– Joseph Joubert
“Change is inevitable, change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that’s when it’s progress.” – Doug Baldwin
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.” – Noam Chomsky
“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” – Charles Kettering
“Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.” – Robert Kennedy
“There is progress whether you are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!” – Edgar Cayce
“Of course everyone has those moments of frustration now and then, when you say, ‘I wish I could play well already – or just stop.’ But it’s too much trouble to stop just for a moment of frustration. It is when you keep going that you make the most progress.” – Hilary Hahn
“Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know’, and thou shalt progress.”
– Maimonides
“I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.” – Mark Zuckerberg
“We must always set the bar high, otherwise we do not progress.” – Kylian Mbappe
“And I’ve always said, ‘If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn’t necessary.’ We need to be able to understand that if we’re going to make real progress.” – Ben Carson
“Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction.” – Brendon Burchard
“We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.” – Jocko Willink
“Everybody’s a work in progress. I’m a work in progress. I mean, I’ve never arrived… I’m still learning all the time.” – Renee Fleming
“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.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” – Harry S Truman
“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”
– Indira Gandhi
“I think that it’s when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person, and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn’t look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well.” – John McAfee
“Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.” – Henry Spencer
“It’s the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you’re mad, then dangerous, then there’s a pause and then you can’t find anyone who disagrees with you.” – Tony Benn
“Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.” – Andre Geim
“I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.” – Kelly Miller
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.” – Marie Curie
“Strength training is a fantastic microcosm for a man’s life: pushing yourself through discomfort, every single day, is the only way to make measurable progress. It’s one of the few ways to grow as a man.” – Steven Crowder
“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”
– Khalil Gibran
“Embrace a diversity of ideas. Embrace the fact that you can disagree with people and not be disagreeable. Embrace the fact that you can find common ground – if you disagree on nine out of 10 things, but can find common ground on that 10th, maybe you can make progress. If you can find common ground, you can accomplish great things.” – David Boies
“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Progress comes at a price. You have to be willing to make tough calls and take the hits.” – Aja Brown
“Life is short and progress is slow.” – Gabriel Lippmann
“Life is a work in progress.” – Jeff Rich
“A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you’re doing, I feel like any progression you make… some people aren’t gonna be around you that were around you.” – Dave East
“Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.” – Nancy Gibbs
“Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.” – John Noble
“If you’ve got an idea, start today. There’s no better time than now to get going. That doesn’t mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there’s always small progress that can be made to start the movement.” – Kevin Systrom
“When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they’re doing.” – Daniel H. Pink
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
– Frederick Douglass
“Overnight successes are generally years in the making. And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye.” – Andrew Yang
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.” – Thomas A. Edison
“The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.” – Dag Hammarskjold
“A person who makes a few mistakes makes little progress.” – Bryant H. McGill
“Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.” – Henry Miller
“Delay is the eney of progress.” – Eliot Spitzer