Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

People think that you have to do something huge, like go to Africa and build a school, but you can make a small change in a day. If you change Wednesday, then you change Thursday. Pretty soon it's a week, then a month, then a year. It's bite-size, as opposed to feeling like you have to turn your life inside out to make changes.

You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years.

In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.

If you do something every day a little, the end is going to be big.

Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.

Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually.

Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it's giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. When you total up those baby steps you'd be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you've taken.

Real change happens a step at a time.

I think the best things are the ones that happen organically and take a while because nothing really happens overnight if you think about it.

A small step in a good direction.

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.

Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps.

The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.

If you want to effect change, start small.

Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.

The things that change people's lives are usually an accumulation of small acts.

All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

If you're running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it one page at a time. If you're trying to master a new language, try it one word at a time. There are 365 days in the average year. Divide any project by 365 and you'll find that no job is all that intimidating.

Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.

Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.

We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in.

Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn't going to go anywhere unless you do something about it. Every day, just do one thing. At the end of six months, you'll be somewhere.

You can start changing our world for the better daily, no matter how small the action.

Not every move you make has to be a great leap

People frequently fail when they try to do everything at once. They approach a massive project and quickly get discouraged. Taking small, but high-value steps takes less time, and you learn more in the long run.