Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on One Step at a Time

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Sivananda Saraswati (1887–1963) Indian Hindu Spiritual Teacher

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American Head of State, Lawyer

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Jacob Riis (1849–1914) Danish-born American Social Reformer, Journalist, Photographer

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American Businessperson, Engineer

Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk, at least, before they dance.
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) English Poet

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
John Lyly (1554–1606) English Dramatist, Novelist, Writer

A little neglect may breed great mischief. For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; and for want of a horse, the rider was lost; being overtaken, and slain by the enemy. All for want of care about a horse-shoe nail.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Much rain wears the marble.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

I learned…that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
Brenda Ueland (1891–1985) American Journalist Memoirist

Life is a great bundle of little things.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–94) American Physician, Essayist

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author

The chief duty I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American Author

Inches make champions.
Vince Lombardi (1913–70) American Football Coach

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French Poet, Playwright, Film Director

Why not learn to enjoy the little things—there are so many of them.
Unknown

In life’s small things be resolute and great
To keep thy muscle trained; know’st thou when Fate
Thy measure takes, or when she’ll say to thee,
“I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?”
James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic

All that I have accomplished, or expect or hope to accomplish, has been, and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant-heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact. If I was ever actuated by ambition its highest and warmest aspiration reached no further than the hope to set before the young men of any country an example in employing those invaluable fragments of time called odd moments.
Elihu Burritt (1810–79) American Pacifist, Diplomat

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900–44) French Novelist, Aviator

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821–81) Swiss Moral Philosopher, Poet, Critic

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief.
Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) American Journalist, Political Commentator

It helps a lot looking at life from the perspective of one’s certain death. Try to visualize yourself at the hour of death. Just a couple of minutes each day. It’s basic Buddhist beginners practice.
Hans Taeger

The waters wear the stones.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Nothing can be done except little by little.
Charles Baudelaire (1821–67) French Poet, Art Critic, Essayist, Translator

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winter doesn’t cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.
William Feather (1889–1981) American Publisher, Author

Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic

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