Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction.

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

I don't want to take one step forward and two steps backward.

There was a joke in Czechoslovakia: The Communist Party dance, it's one step forward, two steps backward, and everyone is still clapping.