Step-by-Step Advancement Quotes

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

… evolution over revolution.

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.

Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.

Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.

Good is done by degrees.

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

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.

Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.

Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

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.

Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.