Progress Quotes

The devil whispers “You cannot withstand the storm”.
The warrior replied, “I am the storm”.

— A.A. Milne

Progress is defined as moving forward towards the completion of something. Progress can be on a known path, that will lead to a pre-defined destination. Or progressing on an unknown terrain will create newer path and will take us to a newer end-goals.
Life is all about these ups and downs, no matter what, we have to keep on moving ahead and complete achieving milestones one after the other.
Let’s embark on a fun ride and explore these awesome quotes to make the journey worthwhile.

Progress Not Perfection Quotes

“I don’t know where I’m going from here but I promise it won’t be boring.”

— David Bowie


“Just keep moving forward and don’t give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.”

— Johnny Depp

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”

– James Joyce


“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”

– James Conant


“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

– Jane Goodall


“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”

– Carrie Fisher

“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”

– Abraham Maslow


“The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development.”

– Robin Sharma


“Don’t go through life, grow through life.”

– Eric Butterworth


“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”

– Bernice Johnson Reagon


Work in Progress Quotes

“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”

– Philip Roth


“There is progress whether we are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!”

– Edgar Cayce

“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.”

– Daniel Gilbert


“Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.”

– Max Frisch


“I am a work in progress dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding.”

– Ani DiFranco


“Everybody’s a work in progress. I’m a work in progress. I mean, I’ve never arrived. I’m still learning all the time.”

– Renee Fleming


“This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We’re that. We’re work in progress. That’s actually being alive.”

– Daphne Zuniga


“I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.”

– Barbra Streisand


“I try to give myself permission to be a work-in-progress and not have everything figured out at once. It’s more manageable and takes some of the pressure off of feeling like I have to have everything right all the time.”

– Jewel


“People and relationships never stop being a work in progress”

– Nora Roberts


“You’re always a work in progress. Flexibility. Personality. Motivation. There’s always room to improve.”

– Chalene Johnson


Enemy of Progress Quotes

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”

– Harold Wilson


“Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.”

– Robert Kennedy

“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”

– Charles Kettering


“I hear them talking behind my back, at least NOW I know the reason why they are behind me.”

– Unknown


“What screws us up most in life is the picture in our head of how it’s supposed to be.”

– Unknown


“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”

– Amelia Earhart


“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”

– J.K. Rowling


“The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.”

– Sydney J. Harris


“Delay is the enemy of progress.”

– Eliot Spitzer


“Too much looking backward … is bad for progress.”

– Unknown


Personal Growth and Progress Quotes

“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?”

– Bob Marley


“Fall seven times, Stand up eight.”

– Japanese Proverb

“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”

– Walt Disney


“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

– Frank Zappa


“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

– Lao Tzu


“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”

– Mark Twain


“Change is inevitable, change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that’s when it’s progress.”

– Doug Baldwin


“Honestly speaking, aside from gravity, nothing in life can keep me down.”

– Unknown


“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”

– Henry Rollins


“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”

– Wayne Gretzky


As rightly pointed out by Albert Einstein that “Failure is success in progress”, we must never stop moving forward and advancing towards our goals.