Gradual Advancement Quotes

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

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

My policy in America is, 'Steady growth is forever.'

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

I like the idea of working my way up. I don't feel impatient to immediately jump into something that could literally bring down a studio if I don't do it well.

We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur.

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.

When you're facing an opponent over a broad front, you don't aim for the opponent's strong points, important though they may be. Pick a little outpost that you can capture and win. And then you find another place that you can capture and win it, and then you move slowly toward the big places.

We shall progress inch by inch.

For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed by equally sudden falls. I have most faith in the individual or enterprise that advances step by step. A mushroom can spring up in a day; an oak takes 50 years or more to reach maturity. Mushrooms don't last; oaks do. The real cause for an enormous number of business failures is premature over-expansion, attempting to gallop before learning to creep. Sudden successes often invite sudden reverses.

A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory.

Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.

We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.

Slowly, but surely, we are moving in the right direction. We're on the right track. The economy is getting stronger

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.

My journey has been a very slow build-up. Each year has been a step upward. I've never actually gone backward.

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

Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.

The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.