Ray William Johnson Quotes

I've worked really hard to get to where I am. Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

Almost nobody gets rich or erudite overnight.

Rome was not built in one day.

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

I think with my journey so far, it never felt like an overwhelming, overnight success story. I think that's good for me because I really got to take my time.

I was a waitress for nine years, which I don't regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.

Look at my success. I didn't achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years' struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.

The hardest thing to do is dig deep and be patient about the things you're going to learn month to month and quarter to quarter.

It took me 30 years for people to consider me an overnight success.

I'm just trying to go out each week and get better. I just have to be patient, and it's going to happen.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn't instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way.

I don't want to pack everything into one year and then do nothing the rest of my life. I think it's important to do things bit by bit.

It just proves that I've been here for a long time and, I guess, have done the right things over the years.