Small Groups Quotes

• A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

  Margaret Mead

  Change, Thoughtful, People

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• Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.

  Gloria Steinem

  Healing, Groups, Transformation

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• When Jesus started His ministry, the very first thing He did was form a small group.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Groups, Ministry

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• We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

  Sonia Johnson

  Change, Success, Determination

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• The world is divided into three kinds of people: A very small group that makes things happen; a somewhat larger group that watches things happen; and a great multitude that never knows what has happened.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  People, Groups, Watches

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• If you are a member of a small group or class, I urge you to make a group covenant that includes the nine characteristics of biblical fellowship: We will share our true feelings (authenticity), forgive each other (mercy), speak the truth in love (honesty), admit our weaknesses (humility), respect our differences (courtesy), not gossip (confidentiality), and make group a priority (frequency).

  Rick Warren

  Honesty, Humility, Biblical

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• Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise the content falls on deaf ears. So small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create.

  Peter Block

  Block, Fall, Knowledge

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• I think small groups have more collective wisdom than an individual.

  Lewis Schiff

  Thinking, Groups, Individual

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

  Larry Page

  Motivation, Impact, People

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• I'm all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I've been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don't have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.

  Bob Goff

  Friday, Men, Years

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• Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.

  Bill Parcells

  Team, Winning, Groups

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• Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.

  Margaret Mead

  Groups, World, Underestimate

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• I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to think that the more people I talk to, the bigger the
  impact I'll have, and yet Jesus didn't spend His time just speaking to the masses. He spent the bulk of his time with a small group of people.

  Francis Chan

  Jesus, Thinking, Impact

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• Form a small group. Five or six people, of people who think the way you do, and are willing to meet regularly, every week, and you will be surprised at what imaginative, gutsy thought and action comes out of that synergy. Takes a while, but there's something that every little group like that can do.

  Ray McGovern

  Thinking, People, Groups

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

  Gloria Steinem

  Justice, People, Sitting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.

  Andy Stanley

  Leadership, Christian, Kids

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• The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.

  Bob Dylan

  Real, Thinking, Hands

  "Bob Dylan discusses his latest album 'Together Through Life'". The Monterey County Herald Interview, www.montereyherald.com. August 19, 2010.

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• A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

  Robert Reed

  Entrepreneur, Community, Working Together

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• In the Gospel we have just heard, Jesus, the Master, teaches the crowds and the small group of his disciples by accommodating himself to their ability to understand. ... Jesus does not seek to 'play the professor.' Instead, he seeks to reach people's hearts, their understanding and their lives, so that they may bear fruit.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Heart, Play

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.12, Orbis Books

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• Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

  Bill Dixon

  Groups, Possibility, Realms

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• Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. A few stirred-up women brought about women's voting. The Populist movement, the Progressive movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement - the examples go on and on of 'little people' getting together and telling the truth about their lives. They made our government act.

  Unita Blackwell

  War, Writing, Government

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• If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then uses them for purely advisory purposes, it loses the true advantage that a team has: namely, collective wisdom.

  James Surowiecki

  Wisdom, Team, Organization

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.190, Anchor

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  If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of.

  Mindy Kaling

  Crush, Jealous, Phones

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• Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Believe, Men, Democracy

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.119, Take Root Media

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