Progress Over Time Quotes

Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

We all played bad before we played good.

As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today, you can't help but feel that life is a terrible complexity of problems. But if you look back a few thousand years, you realize that we have advanced fantastically. If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of mankind.

Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal.

Time is on the side of all things good.

You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.

It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.

There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.

Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

I feel it's that I don't ever give up on myself, and I'd rather run a marathon than a sprint. Personally, I think I'm a slow learner who's getting better every year, every moment, every project. I've met so many amazing people along the way. And there's no gimmick with me. What you see is what you get.

Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me.

If you work on anything long enough hopefully you’ll get better and I feel like we’re just growing.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time.

A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph

My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.

I developed this guiding statement to stress on the fact that every good thing takes time to develop.

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