Small Beginnings Quotes

• The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• If you plan to excel in big things, you have to develop the habit in the small ones.

  LeCrae

  Habit, Bigs, Plans

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• Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings.

  Joyce Meyer

  Pads, Launching

  Twitter post from Jun 26, 2014

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• All great things have small beginnings.

  Peter Senge

  Life, Motivational, New Beginnings

  Peter Senge, Art Kleiner (2011). “The Dance of Change: The Challenges of Sustaining Momentum in a Learning Organization”, p.64, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings

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• According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  John F. Kennedy

  Travel, New Beginnings, Journey

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

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• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

  Demosthenes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  "Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, (p. 511), 1897.

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• Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  Laozi

  Uplifting, Journey, Difficult And Easy

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• Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Spring, New Beginnings

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• It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Writing, Effort, Doe

  FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Jan 24, 2011

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• Never despise small beginnings, and don't belittle your own accomplishments. Remember them and use them as inspiration as you go on to the next thing. When you venture outside your comfort zone, wherever the starting point may be, it's kind of a big deal.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Inspiration, Accomplishment, Comfort

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• Big things have small beginnings.

  Michael Fassbender

  Cinema, Bigs, Humble Beginnings

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  You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

  Mike Murdock

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Mike Murdock (2012). “Seeds Of Wisdom On Habits”, p.5, Wisdom International Inc

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• There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

  Henry Ford

  Safety, Growing, Unlimited

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• Great things have small beginnings.

  Francis Drake

  Life, Achievement, Captains

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• Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller.

  Herb Kelleher

  Inspirational, Thinking, Growth

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• Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

  John Dryden

  Love, Power, Grows

  'Annus Mirabilis' (1667) st. 155

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• I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.

  T. D. Jakes

  Halfway There, Generations, Totems

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D'Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• Every improvement or innovation begins with an idea. But an idea is only a possibility - a small beginning that must be nurtured, developed, engineer, tinkered with, championed, tested, implemented and checked ideas have no value until they are implemented.

  Alan Robinson

  Creativity, Ideas, Innovation

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• Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many.

  William Bradford

  Light, Hands, Giving

  William Bradford (1870). “A Dialogue, or third conference between some young men born in New England, and some ancient men which cam out of Holland and Old England, concerning the Church and the government thereof ... Edited, with a preface and notes, by Charles Deane. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society”, p.6

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• Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

  Carl Sandburg

  Baby, Miracle, Goes On

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• In conclusion I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country. Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy

  Zachary Taylor

  Country, Citizens, Care

  John J. Farrell, Zachary Taylor, United States. President (1849-1850 : Taylor), United States. President (1850-1853 : Fillmore) (1971). “Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 [and] Millard Fillmore 1800-1874: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Born

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.487, GENERAL PRESS

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• There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.

  David

  Men, Arabia, Needs

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• The world has been evolved, not created: it has arisen little by little from a small beginning, and has increased through the activity of the elemental forces embodied in itself, and so has rather grown than come into being at an almighty word.

  August Weismann

  Littles, World, Evolution

  August Weismann, Sir John Arthur Thomson, Margaret R. Thomson (1904). “The Evolution Theory”

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