Bill Gates Quotes

Real change happens a step at a time.

People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

The sports pages record man’s accomplishments. The front pages record his failures.

I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.

You don't need a grand plan, you don't need to go back to the ancestors and rewrite the rules. You just need to take small steps and accumulate small wins.

When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.

Change is incremental. Change is small.

If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.

Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

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.

Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.

If you want to make changes in the world, you're going to have to be there day after day doing the boring, straightforward work of getting a couple of people interested and building a slightly bigger organization and carrying out the next move and suffering frustration and finally getting somewhere. That's how the world changes.

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.

A small step in a good direction.

God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow.

All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

All the good things that are happening in America don't get reported on a lot.

Realize that little things lead to bigger things.

Take action every day - some small dose at a time.