Top 100 Quotes About Small Steps
#1. A radical shift in attitude happens in small steps. It's a transformation. A butterfly does a lot of walking and eating and growing before it finally forms a chrysalis and emerges with wings. It's not an instant transformation.
Rohvannyn Shaw
#2. 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.
Bruce Feiler
#3. When I get out of the rickshaw I walk slowly towards the school building, taking small steps. All around me girls are running: in the morning the young are as noisy as a flock of sparrows.
Shan Sa
#4. Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.
Eric Maskin
#5. When you jump across a canyon, cautious small steps and vacillation won't work. Sometimes you just have to go for it.
Rick Warren
#6. Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away.
The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end.
Louis Sachar
#7. If it doesn't do you any good, dump it. Take some action, push that lever, flush it away, and don't look back. Take small steps everyday of your life, and start taking control of what you say when you talk to yourself.
Dave Pelzer
#8. A little here and a little there will always accumulate, so why be surprised when steady, small steps take you to great places?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#9. it seems like there are ten lousy situations you can't do anything about, for every one where you can make a difference, it's all about putting your right foot forward, and just taking those small steps.
Jerome Preisler
#10. You need to take small steps when you dream big dreams. I am a published author with dyslexia, a professional speaker who was in speech therapy for three years as a child because I had a lisp; and a slow stiff kid from the suburbs who became an All-Pro in the NFL.
Karl Mecklenburg
#11. Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.
Jean Racine
#12. There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#13. History ... shows that even seemingly miraculous advances are in fact the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period of time.
Paul Rogat Loeb
#14. It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.
Louis Sachar
#15. Progress comes not only in great leaps but also from hundreds of small steps.
Walter Isaacson
#16. All of this, you and me, is brand new, you're right. Let's just take this one small step at a time."
"These small steps include sex, right?
Karina Halle
#17. I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.
Trisha Yearwood
#18. I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)
Mary E. Pearson
#19. 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.
Hillary Clinton
#20. Small steps may appear unimpressive, but don't be deceived. They are the means by which perspectives are subtly altered, mountains are gradually scaled, and lives are drastically changed.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#21. 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.
Harvey MacKay
#22. Small steps could make large journeys, if admittedly very slow ones.
Kim Harrison
#23. The important thing is to believe in what you do. Have a big dream and take small steps.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#24. 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.'
Louis Sachar
#25. Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
Saul Bellow
#26. Small steps taken by many people in their backyards add up.
Nancy Knowlton
#27. 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!
Louis Sachar
#28. Realistic Goals and Take Small Steps
Tom Scarfo
#29. We're all innately creative; I'm not bringing anything magical to it. Ninety percent of inventing is putting in the hours and just trying. You don't need to make a big leap - you - need to take a thousand small steps.
James Jorash
#30. I was still hurting, my heart still aching with all of the loss, but I began to attempt to live again.
To wake, to move, to try taking small steps in the right direction. I was alone in that path.
R.K. Lilley
#31. The best among us are not more gifted than the rest. They just take small steps each day as they march towards their biggest life.
Robin S. Sharma
#32. Going from sharing a one-bedroom place to living in a loft to two people living in a house to me having my own place by myself has kind of mirrored my career ... small steps to bigger, to bigger, to now having a steady job.
Dianna Agron
#33. The best way to make employees happy is to set realistic goals and achieve them. The big job is to make sure those small steps are pointing us in the right direction and demonstrate at the end of the year that they all add up to something pretty great.
Leila Janah
#34. Large-scale change is grounded in small steps toward a big idea
Stewart Friedman
#36. You need to be content with small steps. That's all life is. Small steps that you take every day so when you look back down the road it all adds up and you know you covered some distance. It took me a long time to accept that, but it's true. You need to have patience."",
Katie Kacvinsky
#37. To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.
Randy Pausch
#38. 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.
Paddy Considine
#39. Little progress is better than no progress at all. Success comes in taking many small steps. If you stumble in a small step, it rarely matters. Don't gift wrap the garbage. Let little failures go.
John C. Maxwell
#40. You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
George Konrad
#41. Freedom has more often been lost in small steps by progressive incrementalism, than it has been by catastrophic upheavals such as violence or war.
James Madison
#42. The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.
Robert Genn
#43. Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
Gregory Maguire
#44. 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.
Atul Gawande
#45. If you want to make room in your life for peace and patience, take small steps on organization, know the value of time. Snatch, seize and enjoy every minute of it!
Emilie Barnes
#46. Big visions are realized through small steps.
Mike Glenn
#47. See? Small steps. Just take it one thing at a time and you'll be fine. Angel, I'm not going to hurt you. You know that, right? Can you nod for me? Breathe a little? Tender humor mixed with the concern in his face could undo her. And give her reassurance. She was rather amazed at the combination.
Joey W. Hill
#48. 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.
Sheryl Sandberg
#49. The big thinking gives us vision, power and direction, but it is the small steps that are the action of the process.
John Patrick Hickey
#50. We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
Francis Bacon
#51. One can remain more sure-footed by taking small steps, but perhaps achieve greater speed by taking bigger steps. Of course, one also runs the risk of setting out in a completely erroneous direction. Surely the important thing isn't the length of our steps, but that the objective is clear.
Angela Merkel
#52. Life is dreamed in big leaps and revealed in small steps.
Jon Acuff
#53. Remember that small steps can create giant leaps over time, so never think of any financial or spending matter as a small one.
David Bach
#54. Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.
John Donne
#55. All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain's fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play.
Robert D. Maurer
#56. I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#57. Lots of small steps equates to a giant leap.
Steven Magee
#58. Set a goal, write it down, and release the outcome. Small steps make a big difference.
Cheryl Richardson
#59. I'm just wondering if it's a good thing to resign yourself quite this much to small steps when you could take some big ones.
Veronica Roth
#60. Process transforms any journey into a series of small steps, taken one by one, to reach any goal. Process transcends time, teaches patience, rests on a solid foundation of careful preparation, and embodies trust in our unfolding potential.
Dan Millman
#61. By the late 1980s, there was the beginning of awareness about a significant global landmine problem, and small steps were being taken to try to deal with the problem.
Jody Williams
#62. The path to greatness begins with your willingness to take small steps.
Kathy McClary
#63. We can learn to trust him as our Lord only by following. We can learn to obey by taking small steps of obedience.
Anonymous
#64. 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.
Indira Gandhi
#65. If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there.
John H. Johnson
#66. The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
Oprah Winfrey
#67. Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn't going to go anywhere unless you do something about it. Every day, just do one thing. At the end of six months, you'll be somewhere.
Marlo Thomas
#68. 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.
Bill Joy
#69. 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.
Dillon Burroughs
#70. It is to our own detriment that we underestimate the might of small and simple things.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#71. Confidence is everything. From there, it's a small step to winning.
Craig Stadler
#72. Feeling lost? Take a dream and convert it into small goals, then start taking the steps to hit those goals.
Dave Ramsey
#73. On my first evening in the back country, I skipped down the porch steps of the farmhouse-leaving my father inside and the radio playing and my small suitcase decorated with neon flower stickers unpacked-and wandered towards the upside-down school bus I'd spied from an upstairs window.
Mitch Cullin
#74. Progressing at a snail's pace is still progress, and slow progress is better than no progress. Never be stagnant, and never give up.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#75. I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.
Heidi Klum
#76. We must begin where we are and move forward immediately by starting small and capitalizing on what's at hand.
Mike Schmoker
#77. To change the world, Start with one step. However small, the first step is hardest of all.
Dave Matthews
#78. We can be safe and live with other defined truths exemplified by a capital "T" or we can change and with our limited time experience truth with a small "t," seeking our own understanding, which can change with new awareness.
David W. Earle
#79. 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.
Pope Francis
#80. Success steps: Think big. Act small. Then scale.
Failure steps: Act big. Think small. Then shrink.
Consider your next big thing a project. Get one. Get it right. No sense growing a broken system.
Richie Norton
#81. Peace may be hard to achieve, but is possible with small yet essential steps that are guided by courage and sufficient commitment.
Widad Akreyi
#82. In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!
James Blish
#83. The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.
Regina Brett
#84. Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you'll sail calmly past obstacles that have defeated you before. Slowly - but painlessly! - you'll cultivate an appetite for continued success and lay down a permanent new route to change.
Robert D. Maurer
#85. You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis, all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence
Irene Gut Opdyke
#87. The literary scene is a kind of Medusa's raft, small and sinking, and one's instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.
John Updike
#88. Immature people want quick fixes; they are the all or nothing thinkers. Evolving adults know that lasting change means being committed to the small daily steps over the long-term, deliberate journey.
Shannon Tanner
#89. Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few.
Malcolm Gladwell
#90. They'd reached St Thomas's and climbed the half-dozen wooden steps to the small veranda. Gamache
Louise Penny
#91. It was a sense of privilege and mute wonder, as though he'd witnessed one of those small, everyday miracles of spring. Like a licked-clean foal taking its first steps on wobbly legs. Or a new butterfly pushing scrunched, damp wings from a chrysalis.
Tessa Dare
#92. I have found that, rather than dwelling on the negative, if we will take a step back and consider the blessings in our lives, including seemingly small, sometimes overlooked blessings, we can find greater happiness.
Thomas S. Monson
#93. True greatness ... always requires regular, consistent, small, and sometimes ordinary and mundane steps over a long period of time.
Howard W. Hunter
#94. Even the classic American main street, with its mixed-use buildings right up against the sidewalk, is now illegal in most municipalities. Somewhere along the way, through a series of small and well-intentioned steps, traditional towns became a crime in America.
Andres Duany
#95. I can hear my steps echo as I follow him to the end of the hall. The door to the small closet under the steps is standing ajar. He closes the door and latches it.
Nancy B. Brewer
#96. ... each day provided some tiny step forward, some steps so small you would miss them if you weren't looking. I'm always looking- eager to witness that next miracle.
Liz Becker
#97. Here we go. Another step. Small, bold steps. That's how you change. You must take another step.
Brendon Burchard
#98. Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.
Og Mandino
#99. Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.
Al MacInnis
#100. He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.
Aldo Leopold
