William James Quotes

When you stop learning you stop growing.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

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.'

I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.

I am working hard to keep making progress, to always improve.

I think once you stop learning, you're going to stop growing.

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

When you stop growing you start dying.

I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

Push yourself to keep improving or you'll stay as close to the bottom as you are to the top

The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

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

If I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today.

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages.

Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.