Are you feeling stuck in your business? Feeling like you’re not making the progress you want to be making? It’s time to read some motivation. Check out this compilation of progress quotes to get yourself moving. You’ll find advice from famous entrepreneurs, innovators and more.

1. We have the power to shape our lives, by the way we think. Only that to have a progressive life, we must train ourselves into thinking in a certain way. — Ndiritu Wahome

2. The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too. — Swami Vivekananda

3. I’m a sci–fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I’d want tons of great science–fiction movies and stories. It’s so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative. — Zoe Saldana

4. For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order. — Mikhail Gorbachev

5. Our business is to be free of anything that separates us from God, who has created us to simply be happy and to progress. — Toni Sorenson

6. We’re all a beautiful, wonderful work in progress….Embrace the process! — Nanette Mathews

7. While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all. — Paul Newman

8. What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art? — Paul Gauguin

9. The progress of history is to take the impossible and turn it into the possible. — Ralph Nader

10. Even a baby step taken is in the right direction is PROGRESS — Harrish Sairaman

11. I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster. — Sam Hunt

12. It’s one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline. — Will Rogers

13. Should a community… be free to enact legislation to say they don’t want blacks? Now that’s illegal. Fifty years ago it was legal. Is that progress or is that regress? — Noam Chomsky

14. Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it — Tony Blair

15. Not every movement is progress — Some movements are just a way of burning fats!

16. The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes. — Paul Karl Feyerabend

17. Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words ‘impossible’ and ‘improbable’ are synonyms. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

18. When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building. — Zaha Hadid

19. Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress. — Swami Vivekananda

20. I have always believed that technology drives human civilization’s endeavor and progress. — Mukesh Ambani

21. We know there is no progress in a straight line. — Swami Vivekananda

22. Each phase of the transformation process has distinct milestones, is progressive, and is not revisited. — Suzy Ross

23. Today’s progress, was once yesterday’s discussion. Speak aloud, see it through, and most importantly believe! — Tyconis D. Allison Ty

24. Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal — Thomas S. Monson

25. A progressive life style demands that one; takes full reigns over their life, not leaving anything to chance…. — Stanley Kujokera

26. A progressive life style demands that one; takes full reigns over their life, not leaving anything to chance…. — Stanley Kujokera

27. If there is progress anywhere it is because there has been people who worked for it not just prayed for it. — Sunday Adelaja

28. The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that’s when they are really making some progress. — Sigmund Freud

29. The theory of government changes with general progress. — Ulysses S. Grant

30. Our spirits are united with Jesus at salvation, but our minds are being progressively transformed into his nature. — Pat Robertson

31. Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future. — Octavio Paz

32. The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas–uncertainty, progress, change–into crimes. — Salman Rushdie

33. Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate. — Swami Vivekananda

34. Progress is the realization of utopia. — Oscar Wilde

35. It’s just progression, i felt like i had to get my game into a spot where i felt i could compete to win a golf tournament, and it’s finally there. — tiger woods

36. The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. — Paul Gauguin

37. I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. — Thomas Jefferson

38. Without death there would be very little progress. — Steve Jobs

39. Ruined land was accepted as the collateral damage of progress. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

40. The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are ‘status quo’ is the catastrophe — Walter Benjamin

41. May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world. — Swami Vivekananda

42. They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it. — Rush Limbaugh

43. When we encourage othersWith no personal motives, We raise high, very high, Humanity’s progress–standard. — Sri Chinmoy, Sri Chinmoy’s Heart Garden: A Book of Aphorisms for Joy and Inspiration

44. I am a work in progress. — Violet Yates, Lost & Found

45. If you look at my career, I kind of got progressively better and better and better. I came closer to the top. — Tyler Hamilton

46. A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy. — Theodore Roosevelt, New Nationalism Speech by Teddy Roosevelt

47. Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation. — Tony Robbins

48. Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization. — Walter Benjamin

49. Progressive, radical, or even revolutionary change has always come from below. — Tom Morello

50. I feel angry but not homocidal — this may be unlooked–for progress.

Progress is something that happens one step at a time. Every small accomplishment can help you reach your goals. By never giving up and pushing yourself to do better, you can make progress in any area of your life. Remember, progress is a journey, not a destination. Don’t be afraid to take risks and challenge yourself. You never know how far you can go until you try.