Step By Step Quotes

No great thing is created suddenly.

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.

The little things amount to big things.

Look, you do everything in stages, right? I don't think everything happens at once. There are so many layers we are constantly chipping away at, down and down and down, closer and closer to what would be the body. I think what happened with cancer, was that I woke up out of nine hours of surgery and I was body. I was just body.

All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.

Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

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

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn't spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn't like, 'Hey, little lady, come strap on this here big guitar.' We took it in steps as much as possible.

Little by little does the trick.

Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps.

I don't want to think too much about the future. I want to go step by step, and we'll see what's next.

Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

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

The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground.

Change is incremental and real change, enduring change, occurs one step at a time.

That's just always the way my mind has worked, is taking something that seems impossible, or too big, and then breaking it down into these pieces so that I know how to get there.

There can be a progression to the dream; there can be steps to it. When you dissect any successful person's story, it's really rare that it was all or nothing. It's steps, and I just try to remind myself of that in terms of the things that I want; it's like, everything is a step, leading you to where you need to go.

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