Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.
Do no evilness because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty one.
Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great
Character is distilled out of our daily confrontation with temptation, out of our regular response to the call of duty. It is formed as we learn to cherish principles and to submit to self-discipline. Character is the sum total of all the little decisions, the small deeds, the daily reactions to the choices that confront us. Character is not obtained instantly. We have to mold and hammer and forge ourselves into character. It is a distant goal to which there is no shortcut.
The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.
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