Small Actions Quotes

#1. Missing from such histories are the countless small actions of unknown people that led up to those great moments. When we understand this, we can see that the tiniest acts of protest in which we engage may become the invisible roots of social change.

Howard Zinn

#2. Seemingly small choices and small actions add up over time.

Rebecca MacKinnon

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

Darren Rowse

#4. (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

#5. 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

#6. you don't break the chain, you will soon realize that your small actions will accumulate

Felix Bear

#7. 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

#8. No one is just anything. You all cast ripples throughout the world with small actions sometimes having such profound effect.

Julia P. Lynde

#9. Trust is built and maintained by many small actions over time.

Lolly Daskal

#10. Such is life, marked by the ticking of the clock and the call of the alarm until the day it all falls into perpetual silence. For most of us, certainly for this boy, life is not composed of great deeds, but of small actions, and that's okay. It's the best I can give and I like it this way.

Gillibran Brown

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Anything is possible - even the most far-fetched idea can come to being through a series of seemingly small decisions and actions.

Kandyse McClure

#15. Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

Francis Bacon

#16. Being trapped is just a position, not a fate. You get out of it by addressing and eliminating each part of that position through small, deliberate actions - not by trying (and failing) to push it away with superhuman strength.

Ryan Holiday

#17. 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

#18. People can play dumb all they want, but they always give themselves away in actions. In the small moments like that.

Stephanie Perkins

#19. Remember that your reputation is everything. You build your personal brand through everything you do, whether big actions or small decisions, and that brand will stay with you throughout your career.

Jan Fields

#20. 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

#21. One thing I've learnt about humans: you can't judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small.

Dianna Hardy

#22. As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.

Jose Rodriguez

#23. Tactical catastrophes are rarely the outcome of a single poor decision. Small compromises incrementally close off options until a commander is forced into actions he would never choose freely.

Nathaniel Fick

#24. 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

#25. Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?

John O. Brennan

#26. The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time.

Mother Teresa

#27. In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.

Jon Krakauer

#28. Every big castle was once started with a single block; despise no small beginnings. A little step taken every day builds up the hope of greater accomplishments. Do something every day!

Israelmore Ayivor

#29. If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don't act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don't have the right to do that.

Tony Blair

#30. 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

#31. Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Victor Hugo

#32. In short, the fragilista (medical, economic, social planning) is one who makes you engage in policies and actions, all artificial, in which the benefits are small and visible, and the side effects potentially severe and invisible.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#33. We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

Isabel Allende

#34. Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your country's. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. - because the total emissions are set by the cap.

James Hansen

#35. Small, deliberate actions inspired by your true desires create a life you love.

Danielle LaPorte

#36. The very "least" among us has the enormous power to effect change through small acts of determination and will.

Bryant McGill

#37. Leadership reveals itself in the big moments, but is forged in the small. It is the exponential and compounding product of our many incremental behaviors and actions; all of which arise out of our choices in values, beliefs & emotions. Choices all. Not a one is thrust upon us.

Christopher Babson

#38. 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

#39. Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

Oscar Wilde

#40. Life is a sum of all your choices, wrote Albert Camus. Large or small, our actions forge our futures, hopefully inspiring others along the way.

Howard Schultz

#41. 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.

Gautama Buddha

#42. Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference.

Jane Goodall

#43. Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.

Bentley Little

#44. His elegant librarianship ... made me appreciate how order is created: Not through grand schemes - to which I was often drawn - but by small graceful actions, repeated often and refined with time.

Avi Steinberg

#45. Great ideas and small consistent actions with love can change the world from above.

Debasish Mridha

#46. If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

Anita Roddick

#47. Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses.

Michael K. Simpson

#48. In our day-to-day actions, it is often the small and simple things that will have a long-lasting impact (Alma 37:6-7). What we say, how we act, and how we choose to react will influence not only ourselves but also those around us. We can build up, or we can tear down.

Per G. Malm

#49. One of the graces of this world is that there is always some opportunity to show through our actions-be they ever so small or humble-who we are and what we truly believe.

Katherine Marsh