sustained progress Quotes

We must be patient if we would act wisely. What we do today may bear fruit long after we are dead, for no good work is ever really lost. The important thing is to get the tendency right. We should think of all these subjects in terms not of brief individual life, but long continued national life.

Without continuous effort there cannot be continuous achievement.

Think about climbing a mountain. If you decide you're going up Everest, you don't start with a sprint. You'll never make it out of base camp if you do that. The secret is two fold: make sure your approach is consistent and steady so that you can maintain the progress you're making as your journey continues.

When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going.

I want to keep improving, continue to help my teammates improve, make my teammates look good. Continue bringing something new to the game, never getting completely content and always trying to get better.

No matter what your product is, you are ultimately in the education business. Your customers need to be constantly educated about the many advantages of doing business with you, trained to use your products more effectively, and taught how to make never-ending improvement in their lives.

As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’

I always describe my career as something where nothing ever popped overnight.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that if we invent a new acronym, or write a new empowerment charter, we can avoid some of the back-breaking work that sustained progress requires

When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.

A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation.

There is no way whereby our labor movement may be assured sustained progress in determining its policies and its plans other than sincere democratic deliberation until a unanimous decision is reached. This may seem a cumbrous, slow method to the impatient, but the impatient are more concerned for immediate triumph than for the education of constructive development.

There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

People need to look beyond just the immediate victory... There are no permanent victories.

The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.