These milestone quotes will inspire you. Milestone is a stone by the side of a road that shows the distance in miles to a specified place or an action or event marking a significant change or stage in development.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging milestone quotes, milestone sayings, and milestone proverbs.
Best Milestone Quotes
- “Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.” ~ Nelson Mandela
- “Success is a process… During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones.” ~ Sachin Tendulkar
- “I’ve discovered that every time I’ve reached a milestone I think I’m there, but there’s another there waiting for me.” ~ Sara Benincasa
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“I think one of life’s great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.” ~ Bob Dole
- “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” ~ Rose Kennedy
- “It’s when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.” ~ Mike Huckabee
- “Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success.” ~ Yogi Berra
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“The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.” ~ Arthur C. Clarke
- “One of the most important milestones we’ll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.” ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
- “My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.” ~ Agnetha Faltskog
- “Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.” ~ Susan B. Anthony , Milestone quotes graduation
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“Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.” ~ Rose Kennedy
- “A milestone is less date and more definition.” ~ Rands
- “I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.” ~ Joan Benoit
- “Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity.” ~ Tamara Ecclestone
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“People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.” ~ Sachin Tendulkar
- “Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough…. We have to do what is required.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Progress is measured by milestones. What many good people lack are markers that might tell them how they are actually doing. Goals can become a ritual or a fetish, but in the right measure they can give us some much needed reference points. No wonder some seem discouraged! Minus such milestones, we often feel minus in our lives” ~ Neal A. Maxwell
- “We have reached an important milestone and achieved a new momentum in reaching a goal all Americans should embrace – building a secure, peaceful, democratic Iraq that is no longer a threat to the United States or the international community.” ~ Joe Lieberman
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“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “When you have a life milestone happen, it’s good to step back and reassess the things you thought you knew about yourself.” ~ Emily Yoffe
- “I’m very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. “Don’t complain about growing old – many, many people do not have that privilege.”” ~ Earl Warren
- “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” ~ Mark Twain
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“Every obstacle in his journey became a milestone, an occasion for further triumph. We have a model in front of us now, a model who blazes our trail and gives us strength.” ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
- “The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “We have taken a major step forward in providing a new high quality education facility at Longbridge. Not only will the new Bournville College shape Birmingham’s learning environment, it will also form the first phase of the new Longbridge town centre and, therefore, represents a milestone in a new future for Longbridge.” ~ Mike Murray
- “Milestones aren’t what I think about much.” ~ Craig Newmark
- “Martin Luther King’s 1963 ‘I have a dream’ speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute its searing power to a kind of magic. But Gary Younge’s meditative retrospection on its significance reminds us of all the micro-moments of transformation behind the scenes–the thought and preparation, vision and revision–whose currency fed that magnificent lightning bolt in history.” ~ Patricia J. Williams
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“Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind’s feelings, you’ll survive.” ~ Richard Eberhart
- “Thanks to you, we’ve reached a milestone. The first time in our nation’s history that a woman will be a major party’s nominee.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “That was clearly surprising, interesting – a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.” ~ Jon Postel
- “Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be. You may go broke. You may experience failure and rejection repeatedly. You may endure multiple dysfunctional relationships. But these are all milestones along the path of a life lived courageously. They are your private victories, carving a deeper space within you to be filled with an abundance of joy, happiness, and fulfillment. So go ahead and feel the fear. Then summon the courage to follow your dreams anyway.” ~ Steve Pavlina
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“I think it’s always important to reflect anyway, no matter what age you’re approaching or what milestone is in front of you. Reflection should be almost a daily thing if possible.” ~ Jennifer Aniston
- “Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.” ~ Earl Warren
- “Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.” ~ Vijender Singh
- “The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.” ~ George Eliot
- “Life isn’t about milestones, it’s about moment” ~ Rose Kennedy
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“Good intentions aren’t enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.” ~ Harvey Mackay
- “The milestone of 100 episodes is a reflection of the amazing work and dedication of the entire Clone Wars cast and crew. Being a part of this production has been an honor and privilege that has changed my life forever.” ~ Ashley Eckstein
- “All children accomplish milestones in their own way, in their own time.” ~ Magda Gerber , Milestone quotes work
- “Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.” ~ Ameesha Patel
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“When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half-hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.” ~ Pat Riley
- “One of my big milestones came when I turned forty and promised myself to stop worrying about all the things I thought I might do but never really would. I was very relieved when I realized that you can actually complete a project by dropping it. That’s how I “completed” learning to cook and learning German, becoming a good skier, and a list of other things too long to recite!” ~ Arianna Huffington
- “Parenting is a stage of life’s journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.” ~ Robert Breault
- “Focus on quality and ease of movement, not on the age a milestone is accomplished.” ~ Magda Gerber
- “Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life…but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat – these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.” ~ Roald Dahl
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“Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all – to the centre of oneself.” ~ Quentin Bryce
- “Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.” ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
- “We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.” ~ Sherrod Brown
- “Milestone! This is a momentous occasion,” he tells her cheerily. “It should be witnessed by a friend.” She throws him an icy gaze, and he does a verbal back pedal. “Aaaand since no friends are present, I’ll have to do.” ~ Neal Shusterman
- “As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new – and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.” ~ James Russell Lowell
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“I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In ‘The Quiet American’ you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It’s a milestone for me, because it’s the last time I’m going to get the girl.” ~ Michael Caine
- “They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,And now and then there’s a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears.It’s a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are.” ~ Joyce Kilmer
- “Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday’s thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.” ~ Wendell Phillips
- “Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part of us, within us, heavy and dangerous. We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.” ~ Samuel Beckett
- “For me, Barack Obama’s election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.” ~ Jesse Jackson
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“And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.” ~ Thomas Haden Church
- “If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.” ~ Charley Pride
- “Аs I’ve mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life’s drearier milestones.” ~ Emily Yoffe
- “We had so many milestones in America. We were on our way to universal healthcare. We had gay marriage. We were talking about gender fluidity and trans issues openly and discussing them with respect. It was almost to the point where educating people about transgender rights wasn’t an issue. We were including trans people as a normal part of our conversations instead of seeing their presence as this shocking thing to the system. We forgot that those things can be taken away from you because there are people in the world that, for whatever f – king reason, can’t live and let live.” ~ Beth Ditto
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“Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that’s a very special milestone.” ~ Mark McGwire
- “The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.” ~ Buzz Aldrin
- “The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.” ~ Polykarp Kusch , Love milestone quotes
- “Your own self is your ultimate teacher. The outer teacher is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you to the goal, for he is the goal” ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- “We do not take into account the value of the stream. We see the number of streams as a measure of consumer demand, not the value. As it is, we think streams are under-monetized, and we are complaining loudly about that. If the value of a stream changes, we won’t alter the count because we don’t want to alter the history of the program because that would impact these milestone achievements.” ~ Cary Sherman
