Gordon Ramsay Quotes

I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.

You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.

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

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

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

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.

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

I like to do things that are step by step. It takes experience to get to the next level. And you have to put your heart into it.

I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn't instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way.

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

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

I'm a believer in starting from the bottom.

I didn't make the Pro Bowl until my seventh year I think in the NFL. We continually got better.

Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

I would say to any young black , if you get a job and you're asked to work 100%, then you work 125% and don't complain about it. The moment you complain about it, then you don't really want to work. Always do more than you're asked to do and you'll get far in life - and that applies to all youth.

If you're humble and hardworking, opportunities will arise for you.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

Most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them.

By the mile it's a trial, but by the inch it's a cinch.

I have been acting for over 20 years and I started in the smallest little theater that you can possibly imagine and then I very slowly built myself to this point. So it is never like there is this real sharp change or something that really startled me. It has just been very gradual.

You can't start at the top.

At some point you realize, I have dreams. I would love to be working on wonderful roles, in wonderful films, with people I respect and admire. And that will come in its time. In the meantime, "Pay attention to your work. Get better at what you do." That's my job.

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

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

Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.