Victory is not won in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more.
Source: In My Favorite Quotations, by Norman Vincent Peale, 1990.
-- Louis L'Amour, (Mar 22 1908-1988), US author; He was a popular writer of 101 books including Western novels and Hondo, 1953, his first and best-selling novel.