Top 200 Progress Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.”

— Napoleon Hill

152. “Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.”

— Denis Waitley

153. “The price of progress is trouble.”

— Charles F. Kettering

154. “A journey of 1000 miles begins with one step.”

— Laozi

155. “And, when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”

— Paulo Coelho

156. “The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don’t know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.”

— William Feather

157. “Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.”

— Brian Tracy

158. “A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.”

— Thomas Carlyle

159. “Move fast, take risks. It’s okay to try big things. You’re better off trying something and having it not work, than not having done anything at all.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

160. “All progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

— George Bernard Shaw

161. “You cannot make progress without making decisions.”

— Jim Rohn

162. “So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

163. “The only time you should look back in life, is to see how far you have come.”

— Kevin Hart

164. “A man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress.”

— Ayn Rand

165. “There is no history of how bad became better.”

— Henry David Thoreau

166. “Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.”

— Franz Kafka

167. “It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”

— Ram Dass

168. “Determine that today you will overcome your self of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

169. “Don’t hurry anything. Don’t worry about the future. Don’t worry about what progress you’re making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.”

— Alan Watts

170. “There’s always a way – if you’re committed.”

— Tony Robbins

171. “Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.”

— Karl Marx

172. “Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.”

— Stephen R. Covey

173. “Everything is a work-in-progress.”

— Nicholas A. Basbanes

174. “Girls should never be afraid to be smart.”

— Emma Watson

175. “A leader without the vision to strive to improve things is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won’t progress.”

— Lee Kuan Yew

176. “Work hard! Just keep working hard until you can do something you want to do! We all progress at different speeds and in different ways, so be patient and keep working hard!”

— Hiromi

177. “Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.”

— Oscar Wilde

178. “Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”

— George Orwell

179. “The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It’s science that people want to work on.”

— Bill Gates

180. “I’m always a work in progress.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

181. “It is impossible to have progress without conscience.”

— Robert Rauschenberg

182. “The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.”

— Jon Gordon

183. “To those who can hear me, I say – do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed – the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.”

— Charlie Chaplin

184. “We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today, climate change, into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.”

— Ban Ki-Moon

185. “What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.”

— Helen Keller

186. “You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily – you are the only one who can do it permanently.”

— Zig Ziglar

187. “To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it’s gone. I think we should establish life on another planet – Mars in particular – but we ’re not making very good progress. SpaceX is intended to make that happen.”

— Elon Musk

188. “Every day you either get better or you get worse. You never stay the same.”

— Bo Schembechler

189. “The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are ‘status quo’ is the catastrophe.”

— Walter Benjamin

190. “The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.”

— John F. Kennedy

191. “As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

192. “My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.”

— Benjamin Franklin

193. “The reason you’ll never be successful is that you procrastinate.”

— Eric Thomas

194. “Scientific Progress goes boink?”

— Bill Watterson

195. “The first step to getting anywhere is deciding you’re no longer willing to stay where you are.”

— Anonymous

196. “Every experience is a positive experience if I view it as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.”

— Brian Tracy

197. “When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.”

— Eric Hoffer

198. “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.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

199. “Successful people don’t fear failure, but understand that it’s necessary to learn and grow from it.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

200. “In this world you’re either growing or you’re dying so get in motion and grow.”

— Lou Holtz