Seth Godin Quotes

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

If you do something every day a little, the end is going to be big.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.

Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps.

There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.

Take action every day - some small dose at a time.

The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.

If you're running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it one page at a time. If you're trying to master a new language, try it one word at a time. There are 365 days in the average year. Divide any project by 365 and you'll find that no job is all that intimidating.

If you do enough small things right, big things can happen

Ignore the scale, and make the process your goal.

You don’t try to build a wall, you don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there… You say ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ And you do that every single day and soon you have a wall.

Remember to dream big, think long-term, underachieve on a daily basis, and take baby steps. That is the key to long-term success.

People frequently fail when they try to do everything at once. They approach a massive project and quickly get discouraged. Taking small, but high-value steps takes less time, and you learn more in the long run.

The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.