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“The world doesn't come to the clever folks it comes to the stubborn obstinate one-idea-at-a-time people.”
“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two and I know it was not the ...”
“Happiness is a tide: it carries you only a little way at a time but you have covered a vast space before you know that you are moving at all.”
“Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk at least before they dance.”
“Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.”
“Well-being is attained little by little and is no little thing itself.”
“Bigness comes from doing many small things well. ... Individually they are not very dramatic transactions. Together though they add up.”
“If you only keep adding little by little it will soon become a big heap.”
“All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding patient persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle thought by thought fact by fact.”
“If we take care of the moments the years will take care of themselves.”
“Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.”
“True worth is doing each day some little good not dreaming of great things to do by and by.”
“One sits down first one thinks afterwards.”
“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.”
“One step and then another and the longest walk is ended. One stitch and then another and the longest rent is mended. One brick upon another and the tallest wall is made. One flake and then another ...”
“You don't just luck into things. ... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.”
“Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now hold your ground and later win a little more.”
“Yard by yard it's very hard. But inch by inch it's a cinch.”
“If we take care of the inches we will not have to worry about the miles.”
“A harbor even if it is a little harbor is a good thing.... It takes something from the world and has something to give in return.”
