Quotes Tagged "time"

The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second.

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.

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too."

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Home wasn't built in a day.

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.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Well-being is attained little by little, and is no little thing itself.

Bigness comes from doing many small things well. ... Individually, they are not very dramatic transactions. Together, though, they add up.

If you only keep adding little by little, it will soon become a big heap.

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.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

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.