Home » Quote » Robert A. Heinlein » „One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.“ „One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.“ — Robert A. Heinlein Related quotes „Small differences over time create a big difference. Improvement is achieved in inches, not giant leaps.“ — John C. Maxwell „It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.“ — Louis Sachar „and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.“ — Corrie ten Boom „Every man alive in the world is a beggar of one sort or another, every last one of them, great and small.“ — William Saroyan „Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.“ — Theodore Roosevelt „Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.“ — Friedrich Nietzsche „Fighting giants was one thing. Bacchus making into a game was something else.“ — Rick Riordan