Small Beginnings Quotes

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle might light a thousand, so the light here [in Plymouth Colony] kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The difficult things in this world must be done while they are easy, the greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small. For this reason sages never do what is great, and this is why they achieve greatness.

The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

One little leak becomes a lake, Says the tiny voice in my earpiece

Everything for me starts very small and snowballs. So I rarely start with the grand idea and find a place for it and narrow down. It's, really, just start small, and as I'm writing it, I begin to see - sometimes to my own surprise - what's unfolding and what's blooming.

Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings.

The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.

Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Put one little tallow in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light.

You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.

The smallest oceans still make big big waves.

From a little spark may burst a flame.

I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.

I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.

You want an idea that not many other people are working on, and it's okay if it doesn't sound big at first.

Great measures are always rested on small precedents.

When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to downshift from there. I thought that 300 people would read it. But it created a platform of trust.

But everyone has a chance. Every big guy started off small.

I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to make the kinds of stories I wanted to make, which at the beginning was small personal stuff like 'Essex County.'

The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprized in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, in watching agst every evil lurking under plausible disguises, and growing up from small beginnings.

Its pretty humbling, because I go back to the places where I used to play for 13 people, and now there's 1,500.

Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel.