William Allen White Quotes

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Education is the greatest factor in the upward climb of any person or people.

Continuing to grow and continuing to improve is my main goal.

You can never say you've 'made it,' because that's the day you stop progressing and improving.

I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days.

What makes us fully human is the relentless quest for making things a little bit better.

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.

I always set myself new goals. I always want to do better than I did in the past. I always want to achieve things I never achieved before.

So much has happened in the past five years, I can't speak for the next five. What I want is to continue to grow. Because I am never satisfied; I always want more. I always want to get better. I always want to climb another step.

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be a better golfer, I will be a better person, I will be a better father, I will be a better husband, I will be a better friend. That's the beauty of tomorrow.

The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

You're progressing on something and that's what it's all about. You wanna keep moving, having a progress in your life.

Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.

Growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day.

I want to get more and more sophisticated. I'm ready to go from being a kid to being a king.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

I'm always moving forward.

Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing.

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

I think every time you go to do something, it's a challenge. Somebody said to me, 'You've done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?' I said, 'I'd do everything I did better.'

If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew.

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

I look at all my projects as a stair step to the next. My goal is to always get better and better.