Gradual Progress Quotes

No great thing is created suddenly.

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.

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.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.

The little things amount to big things.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

The federal judiciary is an irresponsible body … working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction ...

All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

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

Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

It took Hong Kong 100 years to become what it is.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

You can't snap your fingers, and suddenly half of Congress is women.

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The difficult things in this world must be done while they are easy, the greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small. For this reason sages never do what is great, and this is why they achieve greatness.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Everything I do has been a lifetime in the making.

The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.