Dave Ramsey Quotes

There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish.

Just put one foot in front of the other.

Just continue what you are doing. You should have no hesitation, no stopping - just keep on going to the next level.

Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

If the biographer gives me credit for being a plodder, he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.

To achieve longevity you will have cycles. No one gets there in one straight shot.

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

Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.

Just put one foot in front of the other and don't worry about the length of the path. Once you get on that path, and the longer you stay on it, there eventually will come a time when you will not turn back.

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

But in the end, mastery involves working and working and showing little improvement, perhaps with a few moments of flow pulling you along, then making a little progress, and then working and working on that new, slightly higher plateau again. It's grueling, to be sure. But that's not the problem; that's the solution.

You have to be steadfast, and right now I'm on a stream train forward to make.

Keep practicing, even when you seem to be getting nowhere.

Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.

You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.

I find it's better to focus on what's in front of you and to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.