Stephen Mansfield Quotes

Slow but steady wins the race.

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

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.

Leadership is like exercise. Do it everyday, the results take time but you will see them. It's the little things.

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

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.

It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.

I think I just need to be consistent in everything that I do.

My philosophy when I trained was to be 1% better every day.

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.

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day.

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period, provided we work slowly and consistently. Anthony Trollope, the nineteenth-century writer who managed to be a prolific novelist while also revolutionizing the British postal system, observed, “A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.” Over the long run, the unglamorous habit of frequency fosters both productivity and creativity.

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

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

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

Slow, steady progress is better than fast, daily excuses.

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

Little by little does the trick.

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.