James Callaghan Quotes

Policy change is nothing if it's not patient work.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Problems of 35 years cannot be resolved in a short period of time.

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

Have patience, Radicals—Rome wasn't burnt in a day.

Constant, patient reform—the only kind of reform compatible with Democratic stability—is unsatisfying.

We can't solve all of our problems in a short time.

I think the best things are the ones that happen organically and take a while because nothing really happens overnight if you think about it.

We have to be about finding long-term solutions to our biggest challenges.

I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don't do it in five minutes or in five hours, but in five years.

No great thing is created suddenly.

You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.

We haven't rushed to set up targets, either in business or in football. Our goal was to understand how to act and then to move gradually.

I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.

There is no silver bullet. I know people in Washington want grand solutions for everything.

The long view counts.

If it's one thing we do really well as a company, it's that we take big change slowly and deliberately and bring the community along with us.

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

We periodically note that there are no silver bullets, there are no magic formulas, there's no single action or component of the overall... comprehensive civil-military approach.

Nothing is ever quick. You have to grow an audience, keep them engaged, give them a reason to keep coming back so it will never be an overnight success. Have patience!

Nothing happens overnight in this game.