Steady Advancement Quotes

Rome wasn't built in a day.

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

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

Change is incremental and real change, enduring change, occurs one step at a time.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

Great goals are reached step by step.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It's much more fun, too.

We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.

Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little. If your mind has ideas of progress, you may say, 'Oh, this pace is terrible!' But actually it is not. When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself.

Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.

Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary.

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.

Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.

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

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Real change happens a step at a time.