Slow Progress Quotes

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable. This form of stupidity is confined to no community, to no nation; it is universal. The fat is the human race is not only slow about borrowing valuable ideas—but sometimes persists in not borrowing them at all.

Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

At the current pace of change, we won't have universal access to education in 100 years, let alone five, and that is unacceptable.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backward.

We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

There's always hope. Never give up. Walk slowly and drink lots of water. It ain't a sprint.

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.

"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

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

Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.

Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

Cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day.

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six—the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.

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