Steady Effort Quotes

Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.

Slow but steady wins the race.

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

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

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

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.

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

Little by little does the trick.

Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.

Continual dropping wears away a stone.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

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

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

Falling drops will at last wear away stone.

Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

Nothing happens overnight in this game.

A falling drop at last will carve a stone.

Dripping water hollows out a stone

Little strokes fell great oaks.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.

I'm a plodder, not a planner.

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.