Striving for Progress Quotes

I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.

He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.

One of the reasons for putting yourself on the line, is that life is not simply treading water... I always felt that once you reach a certain point, you have to try and move ahead.

To strive for something better - at least there's a chance.

The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.

People think we have coasted the last four years. We fought, we had a lot of battles. We've always had to battle.

It is easy to look at these waves, accomplishing so little and to think that no matter what efforts we put forth in our lives, all we're really doing is rearranging the sand grains in a beach that in essence never changes.

There's this idea that you can have it all, but in my opinion, you can't - not if you're a perfectionist.

The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up, nay, you have to cut every step with an ice axe; only with incessant labor in cutting and chipping can you make any progress... If you want to know how to backslide, leave off going forward. Cease going upward and you will go downward of necessity. You can never stand still.

Glance backward, look heavenward, reach outward, press onward

We're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges.... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Successful people are always thinking about what they can do to move to the next level. Initiative is the drive to do it - to take the first step, and then the next step. The great thing about initiative - is that it's free and available to everyone.

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

I just want it to be better, I just want to be better, but this is very encouraging.

I was always sort of ahead of myself in some way, shape or form and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being of being free and having a creative agency, so to speak.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

We’re all doing the best we can and sometimes it is not that good.

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.