Top 200 Progress Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Continuous personal and professional development is your key to the future.”

— Brian Tracy

102. “Train insane or remain the same.”

— Jillian Michaels

103. “Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.”

— Tony Robbins

104. “For the world has changed, and we must change with it.”

— Barack Obama

105. “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.”

— Lord Kelvin

106. “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.”

— Steve Maraboli

107. “Keep your eye on the goal, keep moving toward your target.”

— T. Harv Eker

108. “Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.”

— Denis Waitley

109. “I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.”

— Joyce Meyer

110. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

— Conrad Hilton

111. “Without commitment, you’ll never start. But more importantly, without consistency, you’ll never finish.”

— Denzel Washington

112. “Progress is more important than perfection.”

— Simon Sinek

113. “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 too little.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

114. “Each failure brings you one step closer to success.”

— Zig Ziglar

115. “If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable.”

— T. Harv Eker

116. “You can’t climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts.”

— Zig Ziglar

117. “In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.”

— Warren G. Bennis

118. “Keep moving ahead because action creates momentum, which in turn creates unanticipated opportunities.”

— Nick Vujicic

119. “So let me tell you, as you prepare to go off into the world, remember six rules: Trust yourself, Break some rules, Don’t be afraid to fail, Ignore the naysayers, Work like hell, and Give something back.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

120. “An investment in your personal development is the best investment you can make.”

— Jim Rohn

121. “I failed my way to success.”

— Thomas A. Edison

122. “If you want to keep getting what you’re getting, keep doing what you’re doing.”

— Les Brown

123. “Where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress.”

— Eric Thomas

124. “Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.”

— Brian Tracy

125. “Impossible is just an opinion.”

— Paulo Coelho

126. “Failure is success in progress.”

— Albert Einstein

127. “There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.”

— John F. Kennedy

128. “If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”

— Les Brown

129. “Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.”

— Robert Downey Jr.

130. “Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”

— John Wooden

131. “The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.”

— Charles M. Schwab

132. “I’m just always looking forward. I spend very little time looking backward.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

133. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.”

— William Edward Hickson

134. “The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”

— Bruce Lee

135. “If you’re not moving forward, you’re falling back.”

— Sam Waterston

136. “For those who dare to dream, there is a whole world to win.”

— Dhirubhai Ambani

137. “Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

138. “Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is ‘Am I progressing?’”

— Robin S. Sharma

139. “Progress equals happiness.”

— Tony Robbins

140. “Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”

— Noam Chomsky

141. “If it is not a mess, it is not progress.”

— Robin S. Sharma

142. “Go where no one’s gone and leave a trail of excellence behind you.”

— Robin S. Sharma

143. “Launch and learn. Everything is progress.”

— Danielle LaPorte

144. “I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.”

— Grant Cardone

145. “We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.”

— Tony Robbins

146. “Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid!”

— Joyce Meyer

147. “Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. That’s the Law of Consistency. It doesn’t matter how talented you are. It doesn’t matter how many opportunities you receive. If you want to grow, consistency is key.”

— John C. Maxwell

148. “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

149. “Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation.”

— Tony Robbins

150. “Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger