Louis Sachar Quotes

Nothing can be done except little by little.

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

Real change happens a step at a time.

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

Start by thinking of the smallest possible action you could take; then, take it. Then, choose the next smallest action, and do that.

Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.

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

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

Development is an endurance exercise with incremental improvements.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction.

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

Baby steps count, too, as long as you're moving forward.

The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

True progress is slow but sure.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur.

A small step in a good direction.

Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little. If your mind has ideas of progress, you may say, 'Oh, this pace is terrible!' But actually it is not. When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself.

Not every move you make has to be a great leap

Remember to dream big, think long-term, underachieve on a daily basis, and take baby steps. That is the key to long-term success.

Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.

Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.