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Little by little, a little becomes a lot…

Posted by nabil medawar in Special Collections, Words of wisdom, tags: little, little by little

All good work is done the way ants do things, little by little.~ Lafcadio Hearn
And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth. ~ James Levine
Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go. ~ Jose Bergamin
Enlightenment must come little by little, otherwise it would overwhelm.~ Idries Shah
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.~ Sri Swami Sivananda
Little by little, a little becomes a lot.~ African Proverb
Little by little, the bird builds its nest.~ Haitian Proverb
Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.~ Bhagavad Gita
Little by little does the trick.~ Aesop
Little by little grow the bananas. ~ Congolese Proverb
Little by little one walks far. ~ Peruvian Proverb
Little by little the wool becomes a carpet. ~ Iranian Proverb
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. ~ Simone Weil
Nothing can be done except little by little.~ Charles Baudelaire
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.~ Marcel Proust
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. ~ Marcel Proust
We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages — we don’t throw it away all at once.~ Robert A. Cook
Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.~ Citium Zeno