Quotes About Small Efforts

#1. For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.

Joseph Conrad

#2. I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia

Gayle Forman

#3. Increasingly agitated, he tried to shout, but the only sound to come out of his mouth was a hoarse whisper, too small to be heard outside the room. The look on his face was heartrending to see, as he realized the futility of his strangled efforts.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#4. Despite all her efforts to not be one of those historical romance heroines, walking into the marble foyer and seeing the slick hardwood floors beyond, the glittering chandeliers and sconces, she felt like one.
She felt small and alone. And like maybe her dad lost her in a poker game.

Molly O'Keefe

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

Narendra Modi

#6. There's no education in the second kick of a mule

Sam Rayburn

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Rita Gard Seedorf

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

Pope Francis

#9. I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places ... In the most unlikely places I will bless your efforts and reward your perseverance with small indications of your victory.

Lysa TerKeurst

#10. With a sigh of relief, Clary glanced back over her shoulder. Magnus was standing at the door to the cottage, his arms folded across his chest. Catching her eye, he grinned and dropped one eyelid in a single, glittering wink.

Cassandra Clare

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

Charles Spurgeon

#12. 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 H. Townes

#13. 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

#14. A small task if it be really daily will beat the efforts of a spasmodic Hercules.

Francis Bacon

#15. Fashion and public relations share a charter to turn life to their own advantage, to make malleable and commercially useful the naked human perception. Both interests consider life too small, dull, and colorless to get itself sufficiently noticed without the lobbying efforts of professionals.

Kennedy Fraser

#16. All happiness is built upon small efforts.

Hiroyuki Takei

#17. Affirming others isn't 'flattering' them - it's when you genuinely and consistently acknowledge their efforts and accomplishments, both large and small. Make affirmation a habit and watch what happens!

Lee Ellis

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Confident people tend to challenge themselves and compete, even when their efforts yield small victories. Small victories build new androgen receptors in the areas of the brain responsible for reward and motivation.

Travis Bradberry

#21. It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

Paulo Coelho

#22. At times, I feel sorry for kids who have succumbed in some kind of way to being a child actor.

Tia Mowry

#23. To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#24. 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

#25. I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts.

Ben Fountain

#26. Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.

Robert A. Heinlein

#27. As television is learning some of the movies' great tricks, movies are taking what's good from TV. Maybe it will all become one big thing, with smart, talented people who love a thing, helping each other be better.

Akiva Goldsman

#28. It's all make believe, isn't it?

Marilyn Monroe

#29. One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.

Alexis Carrel

#30. It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#31. For most men, a stepford wife would bore them to tears after a couple of weeks

Na'ima B. Robert

#32. Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.

David George

#33. Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier

#34. Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

Yoko Ono

#35. Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

Tim O'Reilly

#36. You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

Jeff Foxworthy

#37. How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against uncertainty with codes of behavior and meaningless busyness.

Nancy Horan

#38. I can see now that it's the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better.

Jenny Han