Small Efforts Quotes

• All happiness is built upon small efforts.

  Hiroyuki Takei

  Effort, Built

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• Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

  Robert Collier

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates.

  Brian Tracy

  Appreciate, Accomplishment, Effort

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• Even small efforts to bring about a change in the social fabric eventually reap large fruits.

  Narendra Modi

  Effort, Empowerment, India

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• The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Effort, Use, Talent

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• People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

  Dorothy Day

  People, Effort, Deeds

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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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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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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• If we want to cook food we need to leave the stove on continuously and not keep turning it on and off. If the heat is continuous, no matter whether it is high or low our food will eventually be cooked. Similarly, if we continuously apply effort, even if it is only a small effort, it is certain that we shall eventually experience the fruits of our practice.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Inspiring, Practice, Effort

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (1990). “Joyful Path of Good Fortune: The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment”, p.149, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things.

  Pope Francis

  Effort, God Love, Great Things

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• They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.

  Susan Glaspell

  Effort, Soul, Made

  Susan Glaspell, Eric S. Rabkin (1912). “Lifted Masks, and Other Works”, p.93, University of Michigan Press

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• One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

  Dorothy Day

  Time, People, Evil

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• How our governments need standards of integrity! How our communities need yardsticks to measure decency! How our neighborhoods need models of beauty and cleanliness! How our schools need continued encouragement and assistance to maintain high educational standards! Rather than spend time complaining about the direction in which these institutions are going, we need to exert our influence in shaping the right direction. A small effort by a few can result in so much good for all of mankind.

  L. Tom Perry

  Encouragement, Integrity, Educational

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• Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.

  David George

  Inspirational, Success, Effort

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• The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.

  Charles Hard Townes

  Views, Effort, Challenges

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• Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship. Yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational women to set her straight.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Girl, Dream, Couple

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Princess Ben”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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