Gabrielle Giffords Quotes

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

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

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.

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

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

Plodding wins the race.

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

Sometimes making progress a step at a time is better than no progress at all.

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

The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.

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

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.

We shall progress inch by inch.

If you're running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it one page at a time. If you're trying to master a new language, try it one word at a time. There are 365 days in the average year. Divide any project by 365 and you'll find that no job is all that intimidating.

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

Little by little does the trick.

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

Baby steps count, as long as you are going forward. You add them all up, and one day you look back and you'll be surprised at where you might get to.

It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.

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

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

A jug fills drop by drop.

There are a lot of people who dream of overnight success, of being Brad Pitt getting discovered for 'Thelma and Louise,' but that doesn't always happen. I represent that stick-to-it-ness that it takes to build a career over time, guest spot by guest spot. Looking back from here, I wouldn't have wanted the journey to go any other way.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.