Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes

A jug fills drop by drop.

I've been building slow, step by step.

He who treads softly goes far.

Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

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

There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

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

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.

Nothing changes overnight unless you win an Oscar. You move up a little bit, but you are always a little fish - just in a slightly bigger pond.

Baby steps count, too, as long as you're moving forward.

The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.

We live in a culture full of hares; but the tortoise always wins.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.

Heav'n is not always got by running.

I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.

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.

You can't rush the miles. No matter how fast I run, the five miles isn't going to be done in the first five minutes.

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.