John Wooden Quotes

I think you have to improve every day a little bit so you don't have one day where there's a big thing coming.

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

A jug fills drop by drop.

Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary.

Real change happens a step at a time.

Always build. If you start at fever pitch, there's nowhere to go.

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

Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.

That which comes slow comes solid.

I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.

No great thing happens suddenly.

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

I cannot tell you on a day to day basis that there's a return on investment. I can tell you if you stick with it, absolutely in a few months things will start to change. It starts to change slowly. Things start to get a little easier. As the momentum builds it becomes bigger and bigger.

Nothing changes overnight unless you win an Oscar. You move up a little bit, but you are always a little fish - just in a slightly bigger pond.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that's by going step by step.

I've been building slow, step by step.

The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely; we shall sooner overtake the dawn by remaining here than by hurrying over the hills of the west.

Slowly would be better than not at all.

One day at a time is all we do. One day at a time is good for you

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur.

All real progress must be slow.

You don't get great at selling in a day. You get great at selling day by day.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps.