Echoes

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Slow and steady wins the race.

The beginnings of all things are small.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The drops of rain that fall upon the stone in course of time will wear their way through it.

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Relentless toil conquers all.

Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.