Top 363 Gradual Quotes & Sayings

The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there.

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.

I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress.

Plant breeding has been going on for millennia and it's a gradual process.

The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.

Climate change is one of the issues I worry most about because its impacts are enormous. But they're gradual, they're not immediate.

I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.

Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.

I thought my body was going to change so quickly with pregnancy that I'd freak out. But it was really gradual.

Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.

I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

For some, transformation comes quickly, but for most of us, the changes are gradual.

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

The expectation of gradual policy normalization should reduce the likelihood of outsized movements in interest rates.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

My body is a gradual work of art

He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

Mandela's political evolution was gradual.

As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined.

But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it.

All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

Gradual fiscal consolidation may also be stimulative in the short run.

Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

You can't push and force people to do what they don't want to do. If things need to change, it has to be gradual.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.

Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.

God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow.

Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual coming of death. As people describe love. To note every symptom of failure: but why failure? To treat age as an experience that is different from the others; and to detect every one of the gradual stages towards death which is a tremendous experience, an not as unconscious, at least in its approaches, as death is.

Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings of paleontology. Following phyletic lines through time seemed to reveal only minimal gradual changes but no clear evidence for any change of a species into a different genus or for the gradual origin of an evolutionary novelty. Anything truly novel always seemed to appear quite abruptly in the fossil record.

History is the gradual instant

Progress can be slow and gradual. Continue putting in effort with patience, enthusiasm and faith.

Some players hit the heights straight away, for me it's been gradual improvement.

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic.

Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.

Our trend in the privatization process and gradual withdrawal of the state from certain assets remains unchanged.

Honestly I think it was gradual from the first time I came. It's been a gradual thing as far as audience and response wise. I feel like I was conditioned for this type of impact.

I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes.

Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.