Paulo Coelho Quotes

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

Look for small victories and build on that. Each small victory, even if it is just getting up five minutes earlier, gives you confidence. You realize that these little victories make you feel great, and you keep going. You realize that being paralyzed by fear of failure is worse than failure.

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

I always take things step by step and match by match.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added together can make you victorious.

What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.

We haven't rushed to set up targets, either in business or in football. Our goal was to understand how to act and then to move gradually.

Great goals are reached step by step.

The little things amount to big things.

Everything happens at one step at a time.

You want to get to the top of the cliff. But that's not what you focus on immediately. You focus on the next ledge just beyond your reach, because you need to do one clever thing to get up there. And then, once you get there, you do it again. A lot of this is rather boring and not very glamorous. But you can't jump cliffs in a single bound.

Overcome obstacles one at a time: Sometimes the end goal becomes too daunting, so take things one step at a time and overcome each obstacle as you get to it.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years.

Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps.

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.

Don't look at the big picture as the only achievement. Start with set, smart goals and work up to something bigger.

I am aware that the battle I am fighting is a petty one, but I am also aware that in order to win that which is great, you must first win that which is small.

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in.

The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories.

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

Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.