Wilford Woodruff Quotes

Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.

The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

I've been building slow, step by step.

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Success doesn't come instantly. Neither does the ability to lead.

I like to learn things slow, I like learning alot, I like to get it all again and in the end, You know you get what you got...

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.

Sometimes there's something that you need a few takes to get it and if it takes 15 takes, it takes 15 takes. It really depends.

The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.

'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. . . .

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.

Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.

Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.

Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

Slowly, slowly, catch the monkey.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.