All progress is due to those who weren’t satisfied to let well enough alone. “Acorns were good until bread was found” (Francis Bacon). The majority of people meet with failure because they lack persistence in creating new plans to add to those that succeed.
If at first you do succeed, try something harder. There’s no mistake as great as the mistake of not going on after a victory. If you can’t think up a new idea, find a way to make better use of an old one. “Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve” (Charles Caleb Colton).
Don’t look for the answer to your problem; look for many answers, then choose the best one. The person who succeeds is the one who does more than is necessary—and continues doing it. As Zig Ziglar says, “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
There’s always a way, and there’s always a better way. When you’ve found something—look again. School is never out! The more you truly desire something, the more you will try to find a better way.
The deeper we go in God, the deeper He goes in us. “A wise man will hear, and will increase learning” (Prov. 1:5). If you’re satisfied with what’s good, you’ll never have what’s best.
“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts” (John Wooden). The man who thinks he knows it all has merely stopped thinking. If you think you’ve arrived, you’ll be left behind. The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. A successful person continues to look for work even after he has found a job.
Cause something to happen. Thomas Edison said, “Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, I will show you a failure.” “There are two kinds of men who never amount to very much,” Cyrus H. K. Curtis remarked one day to his associate, Edward Bok. “And what kinds are those?” inquired Bok. “Those who cannot do what they are told,” replied the famous publisher, “and those who can do nothing else.” Find a better way and make that better.
God always has a better way.