Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Progress, however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.”
- Source
- Self-Help
- Date
- 1859
Meaning of “Progress, however, of the best kind, is comparatively…”
Smiles treats durable progress as incremental rather than instantaneous, arguing that worthwhile results are built through repeated effort and patience instead of expecting one dramatic breakthrough.
Where does it come from?
Self-Help, Chapter IV, “Application and Perseverance,” Project Gutenberg #935. The sentence opens a paragraph that continues, “Great results cannot be achieved at once,” and compares advancement in life to walking step by step.
