Small Actions Quotes

• 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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• For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.

  Adam Braun

  Momentum, Movement, Gains

  "The Importance of #IamMalala on November 10th" by Adam Braun, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2012.

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• In the end, all it takes is one small action, by one person. One at a time.

  Susan Cooper

  Action, Ends, Persons

  Susan Cooper (2014). “Ghost Hawk”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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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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• The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.

  Duane Elgin

  Character, Action, Results

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• I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Encouraging, Peace

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• Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

  Peter Marshall

  Love, Motivational, Family

  Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”

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• Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day.

  Diane Dreher

  Block, Winning, Victory

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• I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things.

  Gabriel Orozco

  Believe, Gestures, Action

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• What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Lakes, People

  President Barack Obama's remarks on the Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality at the White House Rose Garden, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 26, 2015.

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• One small action of love can do far, far more for a soul than all the most beautiful words in the world.

  Eileen Caddy

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact.

  Darren Rowse

  Impact, Marketing, Action

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Procrastination is a common reaction to feeling overwhelmed or fear of failure. Instead of taking on too much at once and overwhelming yourself, break things down and take one small action step at a time.

  Lauren Mackler

  Procrastination, Feelings, Down And

  "8 Principles for Having Fun" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak

  Wisdom, Islamic, Action

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• The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.

  Q'orianka Kilcher

  Heart, Justice, Comforting

  "LatinoBuzz: Interview with Q’orianka Kilcher". Interview with Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you'll sail calmly past obstacles that have defeated you before. Slowly - but painlessly! - you'll cultivate an appetite for continued success and lay down a permanent new route to change.

  Robert D. Maurer

  Change, Heart, Past

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• For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.

  Adam Braun

  Voice, Movement, Weight

  "The Importance of #IamMalala on November 10th" by Adam Braun, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2012.

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• A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

  Haniel Long

  Men, Listening, Important

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• (Lisa Henson about her father) He admired the job of the man who walks along the road picking up trash with a long stick. He thought that guy had a great job, walking along with a stick, enjoying the road, and doing only good in the world, with hundreds of small actions.

  Jim Henson

  Jobs, Father, Men

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• The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of the countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons. Who we are as a society, is the synergistic accumulation of who we are as individuals... Small changes that seem insignificant in isolation can be great contributions when they are simultaneously undertaken by many others.

  Duane Elgin

  Character, Small Changes, Environmental

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• As much as you do get beat-up doing even small action sequences, it's incredibly fun.

  Ed Helms

  Fun, Action, Beats

  Source: movies.about.com

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• As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Suggestions, Pages, Action

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• Large action arrest small action.

  Dai Vernon

  Magic, Action

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