Making Progress Quotes

Action is the antidote to despair.

Thinking is easy; action is difficult; to act in accordance with one’s thought is the most difficult thing in the world.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Don't wait for the perfect time to start making changes to your life; the time is now.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

It is better to start doing what one has to late than not at all.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Never confuse movement with action.

I don't think there's any point going for second or third.

Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.

Momentum begets momentum, and the best way to start is to start.

Don't think, just do.

For myself, I keep writing. I've got to do something. I can't sit on my hands and do nothing.

Don't just sit there dreaming; dreaming is the luxury of the rich.