Take action every day - some small dose at a time. — Jeffrey Gitomer
A small act is worth a million thoughts. — Ai Weiwei
We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. — Howard Zinn
Many small things can add up to a big one. —
Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better. — Vincent Van Gogh
Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns. — Marian Wright Edelman
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. — Peter Marshall
I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Every little thing you do leads up to a bigger thing. — Georges St-Pierre
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. — Howard Zinn
Small, deliberate actions inspired by your true desires create a life you love. — Danielle LaPorte
Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world. — Eduardo Galeano
True life is lived when tiny changes occur. — Leo Tolstoy
Most growth happens as a result of many small steps. The key is to keep taking them. — Dan Sullivan
Adding little amounts over time makes a huge difference. — Leo Babauta
A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow. — Richard Bach
Small Actions Image Quotes
One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do it now.
Small Actions Matter Quotes
It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action. — Fidel Castro
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had To do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action. — Fidel Castro
Your small goals are clear and you understand the actions and know the path you need to take to reach these goals. In your mind, they're achievable and you know it's just a matter of time. — Jean Charest
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
You can start changing our world for the better daily, no matter how small the action. — Nelson Mandela
Small Consistent Actions Quotes
Dream big, but take consistent action towards your goals. It’s the small steps that lead to big achievements. — Steven Bartlett
To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us. — John Henry Newman
The key to success in blogging (and in many areas of life) is small but regular and consistent actions over a long period of time — Darren Rowse
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact. — Darren Rowse
Actions Show Quotes
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance. — Marcus Aurelius
Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action. — John the Apostle
The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.
A person of riyaa (showing off) has three characteristics : He is lazy when alone, energetic when with others, and increases in his actions when he is praised while decreasing in them when he is criticized. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
You can map out a light plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to the reflexes you developed in training. That's where roadwork shows - the training you did in the dark of the mornin' will show when you're under the bright lights. — Joe Frazier
Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale. — Amber Tamblyn
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
No matter what you think your values are, your actions tell the real story. What we do with our spare time shows what we value. — Jay Shetty
Even if you don’t know what you’re doing, the simple act of working on it will eventually cause the right ideas to show up in your head. — Mark Manson
Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper; you are the most special person in my life. — Charles Stanley
In the second half of primary school, I liked live-action shows and giant-monster movies, and then in junior high, I got into regular movies. — Akira Toriyama
Quick Action Quotes
Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal. — Max Planck
Any security issues, you have to be very hands on to really understand what’s the exact problem, and then take quick action. — Eric Yuan
High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true. — Robert H. Schuller
Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don't allow others to control the direction of your life. Don't allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence.
I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know. — Victoria Pratt
For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death. — Sun Tzu
There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it. — Martha Graham
Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally, but what you do consistently.
Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing. — Janusz Kaminski
Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings — Rumi
Death Race was a very modern action movie and it used all of those modern action techniques with lots of hand-held camera, lots of punchy zooms, and lots of quick movements and quick cuts. In 3D, I didn't want to do that anymore. — Paul W. S. Anderson
Prayer power is real. By putting it into action, we will be able to stay more constantly in higher awareness than ever before. If we can do that, the world will quickly change. — James Redfield
Action Without Thinking Quotes
Your life matters. You can't live through a day without making an impact on the world. And what's most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world around you. — Jane Goodall
Every thought has the power to bring into being the visible from the invisible. It is absolutely necessary for us all to understand that everything we think, do or say comes back to us. Every thought, word or action- without exception- manifests itself [in some way] as an actual reality. — Ann Wigmore
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. — Bergen Evans
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyways.
The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant. — Taisen Deshimaru
Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness. — Lao Tzu
Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity. — Abdul Kalam
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects. — Victoria Pratt
Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease. — Henry Ford
The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a prodigious amount of work, seemingly without effort and without fatigue. The amount of work such men leave to posterity is amazing. — Walter Russell
Up to a certain point anxiety is good, for it promotes action. Beyond that point we freeze any fixed attitudes or rush about without thinking deeply from one decision to another. — Jules Henry
Small Acts Quotes
No Act of Kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. — Aesop
Even small acts of kindness can make a profound difference to somebody else. — Misha Collins
Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay small acts of kindness and love. — Peter Jackson
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. — Amelia Earhart
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. — Stanley Kubrick
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting. — Miranda Richardson
Summoning up the courage to take action is always the same regardless of how seemingly big or small the challenge. What may look like a small act of courage is courage nonetheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward. — Nichiren
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. — Aesop
Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great — Abdullah ibn Mubarak
Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Do no evilness because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty one. — Sayings
It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die. — Plutarch
For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life. — Victor Hugo
You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all. — Edgar A. Guest
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. — Confucius
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. — Buddha
It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving . . . help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow . . . from small but deliberate deeds! — Spencer W. Kimball
Love hunger and thirst for the sake of Christ. Insofar as you pacify your body, so much much will you do make your soul virtuous. God, who rewards thoughts, words, and deeds, will give good in return for even a small thing which you gladly suffer for His sake. — Gennadius of Constantinople
In order to recognize small changes in effort, the effort itself must first be reduced. More delicate and improved control of movement is possible only through the increase of sensitivity, through a greater ability to sense differences. — Moshe Feldenkrais
For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d. — Meir Kahane
The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents. — Charles Spurgeon
We might compare each day's decisions with the work of steering a boat. Our efforts will result in nebulous confusion if we make a wrong move at any point, even if it's only a small tack to the side. We absolutely cannot afford carelessness, lest we risk becoming lost ourselves. — Hideo Kojima
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh. — Allen Ginsberg
The Lord doesn't expect us to work harder than we are able. He doesn't (nor should we) compare our efforts to those of others. Our Heavenly Father asks only that we do the best we can—that we work according to our full capacity, however great or small that may be. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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
The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life. — Gustav Nossal
If you practice Yoga for small, selfish reasons, you will remain the same, bound by your beliefs about what you can and cannot do. Let go and offer your effort to limitless potential. Dedicate yourself to the happiness of all beings. — Sharon Gannon
Small Steps Quotes
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off. — John Trudell
If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence. — Anton Chekhov
True greatness...always requires regular, consistent, small, and sometimes ordinary and mundane steps over a long period of time. — Howard W. Hunter
What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward. — Daisaku Ikeda
Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming. — Vishen Lakhiani
There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore. — Laurie Halse Anderson
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. — David Lloyd George
It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward. — Louis Sachar
I’ve learned from watching my mother train to become a police officer that small steps add to giant leaps. — Scott Kelly
Small Gestures Quotes
A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures. — Michael Eisner
We are hungry for tenderness,
in a world where everything abounds
we are poor of this feeling
which is like a caress
for our heart
we need these small gestures
that make us feel good
Tenderness
is a disinterested and generous love,
that does not ask anything else
to be understood and appreciated. — Alda Merini
How easily we ignore or forget the small kindnesses and considerations in life which are really the only everyday magic we witness on a regular basis. Just think- to make happiness out of nothing more than a few kind words or a generous gesture. — Jonathan Carroll
Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For better or worse. God puts us all in each other's lives to impact one another in some way. — Jane Wagner
I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things. — Gabriel Orozco
Be an active participant in your community and country. Every small gesture makes up the big gestures. Resist, rinse, repeat. — Alyssa Milano
Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time. — Mary Anne Radmacher
The most romantic things are very small, kind gestures from people you love. — Douglas Booth
That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland — Jonathan Stroud
I don't do great things. I do small things with great love. — Mother Teresa
We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously. — Grace Lee Boggs
What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries?... In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about? — Maurice Strong
I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat in this century. I have participated in public coalitions developing programmes for action to combat the global rash of small arms. All are trying and making a difference. — Michael Douglas
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
Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller. — Herb Kelleher
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth. — George Eliot
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
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. — Saul Bellow
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, , but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity. This is one reason why meaningful change does not require radical change. Small habits can make a meaningful difference by providing evidence of a new identity. And if a change is meaningful, it is actually big. That's the paradox of making small improvements. — James Clear
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. — Amelia Earhart
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. — Andre Maurois
Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain. — Buddha
Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole. — Jack Kornfield
The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time. — Mother Teresa
For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. — Adam Braun
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action. — Sigmund Freud
One small action of love can do far, far more for a soul than all the most beautiful words in the world. — Eileen Caddy
He who is going to be a magician will recognize that life is dependent on the work of the elements in the various planes and spheres. It is to be seen in great and in small things, in the microcosm as well as in the macrocosm, temporarily and eternally, everywhere there are powers in action. — Franz Bardon
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. — Amelia Earhart
Large action arrest small action. — Dai Vernon
I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick. — Muhammad Yunus
You want a better, more fraternal, more just world? Well then, start building it: Who is stopping you? Build it inside yourself and around you, build it with those who want it. Build it small, and it will grow. — Lanza del Vasto
Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand. — Susan Collins
There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at critical points to create a power that governments cannot suppress. — Howard Zinn
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
You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much. — Tama J. Kieves
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world. — Eleanor Roosevelt
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
When our minds are purified through karma (selfless action) and made single-pointed through up-asana (worship), we cannot remain satisfied with the small achievements in worldly life. — Tejomayananda
Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. — Indira Gandhi
Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. — Richard Thalheimer
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