Ella Woodward Quotes

Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values).

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. Success doesn't just suddenly occur one day in someone's life. Neither does failure. Each is a process. Every day of your life is merely preparation for the next. What you become is the result of what you do today.

I cannot tell you on a day to day basis that there's a return on investment. I can tell you if you stick with it, absolutely in a few months things will start to change. It starts to change slowly. Things start to get a little easier. As the momentum builds it becomes bigger and bigger.

Progress can be unglamorous.

Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.

Seemingly small choices and small actions add up over time.

No great thing is created suddenly.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all. Start small so you don't get discouraged and give up. Remember it is all about consistency.

I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.

… evolution over revolution.

Incremental change does not change lives.

Sometimes making progress a step at a time is better than no progress at all.

Life is a marathon and you have to pace yourself. I believe that slow and steady wins the race, so in that way, I've been training for a marathon my whole life.

I think you have to improve every day a little bit so you don't have one day where there's a big thing coming.

I'm just trying to go out each week and get better. I just have to be patient, and it's going to happen.

If I could just get better a little bit each year, then I did my job.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

True progress is slow but sure.

Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.