If you are after the best progress quotes and sayings, you’re in the right place! 🙏
Below, you will find some of the most iconic and inspirational quotes about progress which are great for those achieving their goals, going down a new path, or completing goals.
Side note: If I have missed any favours quotes or proverbs, or maybe your have your own, please share it in the comments and I will be sure to add it in future updates! 😃
73+ Inspirational Progress Quotes & Sayings 2024!
1. “Small progress is still progress.” – Unknown
2. “Little by little, a little becomes a lot.” – Proverb
3. “Always be a work in progress.” – Emily Lillian
4. “Strive for progress, not perfection.” – Proverb
5. “Passion. Purpose. Progress.” – Unknown
6. “A little progress every day adds up to big results.” – Satya
7. “Comfort is the enemy of progress.” – P. T. Barnum
8. “Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.” – Mahatma Gandhi
9. “Make measurable progress in a reasonable time.” – Jim Rohn
10. “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” – Frank Zappa
11. “Delay is the enemy of progress.” – Eliot Spitzer
12. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass
13. “Slow, steady progress is better than daily excuses.” – Robin Sharma
14. “Progress, that great heresy of degenerates.” – Charles Baudelaire
15. “Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.” – Jim Rohn
16. “Work hard for you and your own goals. Progress will come.” – Proverb
17. “Progress is not inevitable. It’s up to us to create it.” – Unknown
18. “Failure is success in progress.” – Albert Einstein
19. “All progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw
20. “There are only two options: Make progress or make excuses.” – Unknown
21. “To progress is always to begin always to begin again.” – Martin Luther
22. “Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” – Plato
23. “There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.” – Christopher Hitchens
24. “A lack of focus leads to a lack of progress. Focus. Grind. Grow.” – Unknown
25. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
26. “Whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King
27. “Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.” – Robert Browning
28. “I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.” – John Steinbeck
29. “Progress is a set of assumptions.” – Edward Albee
30. “Progress first requires a step to be taken.” – Chase S. M. Neill
31. “You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress, simultaneously.” – Sophia Bush
32. “Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” – Frederick b. Wilcox
33. “Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid.” – Joyce Meyer
34. “Progress is not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” – Khalil Gibran
35. “Life is a progress and not a station.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
37. “Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.” – Adrian Tchaikovsky
38. “Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.” – Kelli Jae Baeli
39. “In other words, I tasted a different drug. A drug called progress.” – Cameron Conaway
40. “Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.” – W. E. B. Du Bois
41. “Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.” – John Lewis
42. “Some quit due to slow progress. Never grasping the fact that slow progress is progress.” – Jeff Olson
43. “Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.” – Robert Heinlein
44. “Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.” – Franz Kafka
45. “There is no progress or accomplishment without sacrifice.” – Idowu Koyenikan
46. “First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.” – Aberjhani
47. “You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” – Shirley Chisholm
48. “Actively recognizing progress towards your goal will ultimately end up inspiring you and have you pushing even harder.” – Denzel J. Wellington
49. “Progress isn’t made through fear. … Fear is the coward’s way of leadership.” – Michelle Obama
50. “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” – Gandhi
51. “Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.” – William Arthur Ward
52. “If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.” – Barack Obama
53. “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin
54. “If you want to experience significant progress toward your goal, you need to be intentional about the work you’re doing every day.” – Proverb
55. “Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.” – Lisa Randall
56. “Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.” – Wendell Phillips
57. “Don’t compare your progress to that of others. We need our own time to travel our own distance.” – Unknown
58. “All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.” – Samuel Butler
59. “Allow yourself to be proud of yourself and all the progress you’ve made. Especially the progress that no one else can see.” – Proverb
60. “The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.” – Orison S. Marden
61. “Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.” – John F. Kennedy
62. “Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.” – Alfred A. Montapert
63. “Man is a progressive being, and every enterprise in which he engages should be carried forward in obedience to this law of his nature.” – James Lysander Enos
64. “It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, the force of character, and judgment.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
65. “The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.” – Emma Goldman
66. “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.” – George Bernard Shaw, Man, and Superman
67. “We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word, and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.” – Mahatma Gandhi
68. “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
69. “Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they knew to be right cannot be done.” – Russell W. Davenport
70. “Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
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.” – C. S. Lewis
71. “Remember that progress is not linear either. Sometimes you make great progress for a while and then you slide back a little. That’s OK. Don’t give up.” – Lee Labrada
72. “The key to any progress is to ask the question why? All the time. Why is that child poor? Why was there a war? Why was he killed? Why is he in power? And of course, questions can get you into a lot of trouble, because society is trained by those who run it, to accept what goes on. Without questions, we won’t make any progress at all.” – Tony Benn
73. “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
Conclusion
Hopefully this list of quotes has been helpful to you and farthing your progress in your endeavours. These quotes are also great to reflect on and provide great motivation and inspiration for those who may need reassurance of they decisions.
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