It is important to recognize the small successes. — Rafael Nadal
Success is rarely the result of one swell swoop, but more often the culmination of many, many small victories. — Joseph M. Marshall III
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great. — Kara Goucher
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more. — Louis L'Amour
I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory. — Frederick W. Faber
Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments. — Teresa Amabile
You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds. — Lyn St. James
What starts as a small win or a minor setback accumulates into something much more. — James Clear
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory. — Mahatma Gandhi
Don't be ashamed to celebrate victories that may seem small to others. Only you and God know what they really cost. — Steven Furtick
It is the small steps which bring you satisfaction at the end of the day. — Rafael Nadal
Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains. — Marvin J. Ashton
It was gradual evolution, a long series of small wins and tiny breakthroughs. — James Clear
Short Small Victories Quotes
We are evolved for frequent, visible, small wins. — Naval Ravikant
The only victory that counts is the one over yourself. — Jesse Owens
Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better. — Vincent Van Gogh
Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. — Og Mandino
My biggest victories in life were when I was sad. — Andrew Tate
Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. . . .Success feeds on itself. — Tal Ben-Shahar
The first and biggest victory of all is victory over your own self. — Enoch Adeboye
Great acts are made up of small deeds. — Lao Tzu
Great acts are made up of small deeds. — Lao Tzu
Sometimes the little things in life mean the most. — Ellen Hopkins
The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.
Little Victories Quotes
How little wives may realize that a biting, stinging word in the morning will rob a husband of efficiency the whole day long. But a loving, tender, beautiful word—a little prayer word—will fill him with music and will lead him into victory. — Kenneth E. Hagin
Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the silent threads of gold which, when woven together, gleam out so brightly in the pattern of life that God approves. — Frederic Farrar
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.
The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline--it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins. — Joni Eareckson Tada
Look for small victories and build on that. Each small victory, even if it is just getting up five minutes earlier, gives you confidence. You realize that these little victories make you feel great, and you keep going. You realize that being paralyzed by fear of failure is worse than failure. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
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
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet. — James T. Walsh
Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories. — Bob Seger
It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures. — John Phillips
I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Small Wins Quotes
Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win. — Bill Parcells
If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small. — Pat Morley
One small positive thought in the morning can change you whole day.
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. — Arthur Ashe
I think skiing nowadays is easier than when we were racing, but winning is maybe harder now, because there are so many top skiers. If you make one small mistake, it’s hard to win. — Ingemar Stenmark
My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics. — David Miliband
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Confidence is everything. From there, it's a small step to winning. — Craig Stadler
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. — Jonathan Kozol
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose. — Joseph Brodsky
The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second. — Michael Johnson
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. — Jim Rohn
Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results. — Robin Sharma
One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart.
Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success. — Ernest Shackleton
(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success. — Ernest Shackleton
How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top — Yvon Chouinard
Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover. — Napoleon Hill
To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. — Aliko Dangote
Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming. — Vishen Lakhiani
Little Successes Quotes
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. — Robert Breault
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole. — Bernard Law Montgomery
If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all. — Robert Koch
No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful. — Brian McKnight
I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success. — Sarah Emma Edmonds
Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great. — Saint Francis de Sales
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way
The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it. — Manfred von Richthofen
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere. — Tim McGraw
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. — Goswami Kriyananda
All real success is internal and has very little to do with external circumstances. — Naval Ravikant
I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories. — Bob Dole
When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win. — Bill Bradley
Dream Big. Start small. Act now.
Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory. — George VI
When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows — David Viscott
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. — Plato
Be grateful for small things, big things, and everything in between. Count your blessings, not your problems.
So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen years have I had the peace of mind that I
have since the election. I have almost a feeling of elation. — Herbert Hoover
No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person. — Theodore Zeldin
An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self. — Madeleine Sophie Barat
Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death. — Ernest Becker
Don't try to rush progress. Remember -- a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing. — Kara Goucher
Love is friendship that has caught fire. ... Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn't brood over the past. It's the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. — Ann Landers
I am a series of small victories and large defeats. — Charles Bukowski
If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future. — Jim Stovall
Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings. — Bruce Catton
The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed — Paulo Coelho
For me, the best time to pray is the very moment a tense situation or an unspiritual attitude overtakes me. God the Holy Spirit is always there, ready to help me gain victory in the spiritual battles I face-big or small. — Billy Graham
Celebrate even small victories. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life. — Will Self
To help people believe they can achieve victory, put them in a position to experience small successes. — John C. Maxwell
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions. — Billy Joel
Celebrate small victories often. Mourn failures quickly. Do what's necessary without fanfare. — Chris Brogan
There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory. — Napoleon Bonaparte
When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor — Terry Goodkind
I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then. — Charles Bukowski
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the Great Powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war--or war will put an end to mankind. — John F. Kennedy
You must set up measurement of results and celebrate small victories as you go along. I have observed that any creativity initiative gets about an eighteen-month grace period. If there aren't any tangible results in a year and a half, despite the strongest commitment, someone in the organization is going to start questioning the whole program. — Michael Ray
I had relatives in New York City who I stayed with. And in those days, the area from Union Square down Fourth Avenue had small bookstores, many of which were run by Spanish immigrants who'd fled after [Francisco] Franco's victory. I spent time in them, and also in the offices of Freie Arbeiter Stimme (Free Worker's Voice) with anarchists. I picked up a lot of material and talked to people, and it became a major influence. — Noam Chomsky
Success is a collection of small victories & disappointing setbacks. Understand the process, stay positive, & focus on the fundamentals. — Bradford Winters
If you look at polls, Hillary Clinton is considered the toughest in a field of men. That`s no small victory for her going towards a general election. — Joe Conason
Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day. — Diane Dreher
the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall. — Susan Faludi
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse. — Charles Caleb Colton
For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security. — James Buchan
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious. — B.K.S. Iyengar
If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap. — Sayings
When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy the quiet evening hours it is beautiful; a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy such things. — Wojciech Kurtyka
When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small. — Rainer Maria Rilke
The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories. — Paulo Coelho
I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places … In the most unlikely places I will bless your efforts and reward your perseverance with small indications of your victory. — Lysa TerKeurst
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory. — John Steinbeck
If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great — Muriel Spark
For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Roland glares at Connor and Connor glares back. Then he says what he always says at moments like this. "Nice socks." Although Roland doesn't look down right away, it derails him just enough for him to back off. He doesn't check to see if his socks match until he thinks Connor isn't looking. And the moment he does, Connor snickers. Small victories are better than none. — Neal Shusterman
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