On Time Quotes
When you have a great and difficult task something perhaps almost impossible if you only work a little at a time every day a little suddenly the work will finish itself.
Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. They have no use for helicopters!
The world doesn't come to the clever folks it comes to the stubborn obstinate one-idea-at-a-time people.
Happiness is a tide: it carries you only a little way at a time but you have covered a vast space before you know that you are moving at all.
Bigness comes from doing many small things well. ... Individually they are not very dramatic transactions. Together though they add up.
All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding patient persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle thought by thought fact by fact.
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.
True worth is doing each day some little good not dreaming of great things to do by and by.
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement.
You don't just luck into things. ... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now hold your ground and later win a little more.
It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.
A harbor even if it is a little harbor is a good thing.... It takes something from the world and has something to give in return.
Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain unless one can ... do big things.
You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Life is denied by lack of attention whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
It was only a sunny smile But it scattered the night And little it cost in the giving Like morning light And made the day worth living.
Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.
Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
The smallest effort is not lost Each wavelet on the ocean tost Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow Each struggle lessens human woe.
In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes or when she'll say to thee "I find thee worthy do this deed for me?"
He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.
We must not... ignore the small daily differences we can make which over time add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Instead of thinking about where you are think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective it is the doing the little things the common duties a little better and better.
No matter how big and tough a problem may be get rid of confusion by taking one little step toward solution. Do something.
Most of the critical things in life which become the starting points of human destiny are little things.