It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important
Source: A Case of Identity (1891)
Topic
Less about achievement than about the sustained quality of attention it requires. Carnegie insists you must push inordinately; one writer notes that the man who has enthusiasm for thirty years — not thirty minutes — makes a success of his life. Blake reminds us that what is now proved was once only imagined; Chesterton celebrates the greenhorn who gets the most out of life by refusing to be strategic. Ford separates the man who thinks about how much he can give from the one who thinks about how little. The quotes here are skeptical of shortcuts and comfortable with difficulty — they treat success as a byproduct of doing things seriously for a long time, not as a destination you reach by planning carefully enough.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
Slow but steady wins the race.
It is not the critic who counts.
Genius is one per cent, inspiration and ninety-nine per cent, perspiration.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.