Lafcadio Hearn Quotes

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

Plodding wins the race.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it.

Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Little by little does the trick.

Dripping water hollows out a stone

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.

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .

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

Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

If you do something every day a little, the end is going to be big.

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.

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

One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates.

By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.

Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.

Continual dropping wears away a stone.

Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.

Slow and steady wins the race.

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

A jug fills drop by drop.