100+ Inspiring Progressive Quotes for a Brighter Tomorrow

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Your limitation—it's only your imagination.

Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

Great things never come from comfort zones.

Dream it. Wish it. Do it.

The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.

Success doesn’t just come and find you, you have to go chase it.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

I’m not lazy, I’m on energy-saving mode.

I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.

I used to play piano by ear, but now I use my hands.

I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.

My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I was supposed to do.

I’m not short, I’m concentrated awesome.

I like long walks, especially when they’re taken by people who annoy me.

I don’t need therapy, I just need to win the lottery.

I put the ‘pro’ in procrastination.

I didn’t lose my mind, I sold it on eBay.

I’m not late, everyone else is just early.

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Knowledge is power.

No man ever steps in the same river twice.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

Existence precedes essence.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Every moment with you is like a beautiful dream I never want to wake up from.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

You are my today and all of my tomorrows.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.

I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew—love at first sight is real.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

I choose you. And I’ll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I’ll keep choosing you.

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships.

True wisdom comes not from knowledge, but from understanding.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The fool speaks, the wise man listens.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

With great power comes great responsibility.

The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.

Leadership is the ability to get men to do what they don’t want to do and like it.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

He who leads by example inspires others to follow.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

Success is not measured by how high you climb, but how many people you bring with you.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

The trouble is, you think you have time.

Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once gone, never comes back.

Lost time is never found again.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Your relationship with time determines your success in life.

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

If you waste one hour of time, you can never get it back.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but you can’t buy an inch of time with an inch of gold.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.