Maria Cornejo Quotes

Nothing can be done except little by little.

I want to start with small but definitive change; the big picture is too abstract.

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

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

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.

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

Real change happens a step at a time.

Incremental change does not change lives.

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.

Small changes lead to big ones. But big changes - trying to become a different person overnight - usually lead to defeat.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

If you want to effect change, start small.

We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.

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

All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

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

I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind of philosophical thinking, thinking in terms of epochs.

We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

We need to make sure that the laws we're passing are protecting people. And we should not be voting against something that makes progress just because it doesn't make as much progress as we'd like to see made. As much as I might like to see any number of issues progress in larger steps, I understand that some of these things happen in smaller steps. And so for that reason, progress is progress. And success is success.

Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to impel humanity towards heights unmeasured, believes itself an appointed pathfinder, a thinker of thoughts, a doer of deeds greater than any of those which came before. Every new generation desires beauty, but a beauty all its own.