117 Best Progress Quotes

Progress is progress, no matter how small.

Running is not about being better than someone else. It’s about being better than you used to be.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster. - Elon Musk

There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. - Elon Musk

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things. - Elon Musk

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. - Elon Musk

SpaceX is only 12 years old now... we should have a significant base on Mars. - Elon Musk

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX. - Elon Musk

This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks. - Elon Musk

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic. - Elon Musk

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. - Charles Dickens

I didn't break barriers—I simply ignored them. - Bessie Coleman

Celebrate the small victories - they lead to big ones.

Technology changes, but courage doesn't.

We stand on the shoulders of those who fought fires before us.

Keep a ‘win jar’—note daily victories, empty it New Year’s Eve.

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. – Confucius

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. – Confucius

Study the past if you would define the future. – Confucius

The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. – Brooks

It's your life. You don't know how long it's gonna last, but you know it doesn't end well. You've gotta move forward. – Don Draper

This is the beginning of something, not the end. – Don Draper

The thing about the old days, they the old days. – Slim Charles

Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes. – Sam Seaborn

The future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed. – Thaddeus Mobley

If you keep looking back, you'll trip and fall. Just keep moving forward. – Renji Abarai

A man can only move forward. He cannot turn back. – Rintarou Okabe

If you run into a wall and pretend it doesn’t exist, you’ll never make progress. The wall will never change, so you’re the one who has to change. – Hijikata Toushirou

We'll build a better town, an even better one. – Lady Eboshi

A hundred years ago, we were tearing each other apart. But today, predators and prey live in harmony.

Ending is better than mending.

History is bunk. – Henry Ford

Stability. The primal and the ultimate need.

We don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.

Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.

True education must correspond to the onward pull of the social order.

The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. – Winston Churchill

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. – Winston Churchill

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. – Abraham Lincoln

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. – Abraham Lincoln

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. – Abraham Lincoln

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. – Steve Jobs

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

Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday. – Steve Jobs

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next. – Steve Jobs

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. – Leonardo da Vinci