Small Steps Quotes

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

Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.

We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in.

Confidence is everything. From there, it's a small step to winning.

The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

When in doubt, just take the next small step

God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are.

When you jump across a canyon, cautious small steps and vacillation won't work. Sometimes you just have to go for it.

A small step in a good direction.

And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.

Big visions are realized through small steps.

Not counting Small Steps, I think Holes is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn’t changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I’m still too close to Small Steps to compare it to Holes.

I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.

If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace.

Getting from point A to point Z can be daunting unless you remember that you don’t have to get from A to Z. You just have to get from A to B. Breaking big dreams into small steps is the way to move forward.

But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!

There are no small steps in great affairs.

Remember that small steps can create giant leaps over time, so never think of any financial or spending matter as a small one.

By getting your customers to agree with you in small steps along the way, you have a better chance of reaching agreement when it's time to do business.

Small steps work—grandiose goals don’t.

Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.

To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last

You don't need a grand plan, you don't need to go back to the ancestors and rewrite the rules. You just need to take small steps and accumulate small wins.

I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us on to do our best. A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties. Everyone needs to be touched by the comfort and attraction of God’s saving love, which is mysteriously at work in each person, above and beyond their faults and failings.

For many of us, it's too difficult to jump in to vegan full on because it's just so different than the way we grew up eating. But if we take small steps - like replacing cow's milk with almond or soy milk, or using veggie sausage instead of sausage made from animals - we can keep enjoying the things we grew up loving, just better versions of them.