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Progress Quotes To Keep You Motivated

Do you sometimes feel defeated? Do you feel like your life is stagnant, and everything is working against you? No matter what you’re going through, you need to keep a positive mindset, and realize that your present doesn’t necessarily determine your future. To build this positive mindset, you need to have a handful of progress quotes at your fingertips. Keep these quotes at the back of your mind, mutter them to yourself sometimes, and make them a part of your daily conversations. In this article, you will find exactly those quotes.
by Chris Allmer | Jun 7 2023
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Progress means different things to every person. But no matter how you define it, its main elements include growth, consistent improvement, and forward movement towards achieving your goals. While everyone wishes and works hard towards achieving success, sometimes things don’t work as expected. In times like that, we may need some progress quotes to keep us going.

Quotes about progress give us inspiration and hope on the bleakest days. It makes us see beyond our present challenges, and look towards the future, even when success seems uncertain.

In this article, we have collected some of the most inspiring progress quotes to re-energize you whenever you feel low.

30 Progress Quotes to Motivate You

    “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
    “The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.”
    Seneca the Younger
    “Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
    Robert Heinlein
    “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing towards what will be.”
    Khalil Gibran
    “Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”
    George Orwell
    “The secret of making progress is to get started.”
    Mark Twain
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    Winston Churchill
    “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
    Walt Disney
    “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
    Nelson Mandela
    “A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.”
    Bryant McGill
    “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
    Albert Schweitzer
    “When you become stagnant and aren’t improving by the day, you are only moving toward your failure.”
    Pooja Agnihotri
    “Life is an ongoing learning path where you make mistakes & you learn from it. You get better, you grow emotionally, socially and gets mature gradually. There are significant times when we are good and when we are not so right; but later on, what we choose for our-self from that learning defines how better we can become.”
    Deepak Chandra
    “Don’t compare your progress to that of others. We need our own time to travel our own distance.”
    Jerry Corstens
    “Slow, steady progress is better than daily excuses.”
    Robin Sharma
    “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
    “Allow yourself to be proud of yourself and all the progress you’ve made. Especially the progress that no one else can see.”
    Anonymous
    “Some quit due to slow progress. Never grasping the fact that slow progress is progress.”
    Jeff Olson
    “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”
    Michael John Bobak
    “There are only two options: Make progress or make excuses.”
    Anonymous
    “First steps are always the hardest, but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.”
    Aberjhani
    “I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.”
    B. R. Ambedkar
    “There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.”
    Ronald Reagan
    “The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.”
    Ramana Maharshi
    “Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”
    James Bryant Conant
    “No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim.”
    Orison Swett Marden

While progress quotes are helpful, true motivation comes from inside. It comes from a burning desire to make progress and become successful. This desire must come from within you. We hope, the motivational quotes above, will help you.

Intrinsic motivation is enduring and sustainable. A person who has an inner motivation is driven by their own interest and sense of purpose. They have a clear direction and even when challenges abound, they don’t give up easily. This is the type of motivation you should seek, and these quotes hopefully help you find it.

 

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