THE JOURNEY OF 10,000 MILES BEGINS WITH A SINGLE TEXT.
“Confucius iPhone”
Small steps, what a big idea! Dale Carnegie said, “Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one, it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.” Your future comes one hour at a time. Thomas Huxley observed, “The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but to enable a man to put his other foot higher.”
Never be discouraged when you make progress, no matter how slow. Be only wary of standing still. A success is a person who does what they can with what they have, where they are. Helen Keller said, “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
All glory comes from daring to take small steps. After being faithful in small steps, you’ll look back and be able to say, “We’re still not where we want to be, but we’re not where we were.” Julia Carney said, “Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.” Author Louis L’Amour wrote, “Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a lot more.” God often gives us a little to see what we will do with a lot.
“Nobody makes the greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little” (Edmond Burke). Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. “Though thy beginning was small, yet thy later end should greatly increase” (Job 8:7). I believe that God cares just as much about the small things in your life as the big things. Why? Because He knows if you are faithful in the small things, the big things will take care of themselves.
The prize of doing one duty is the opportunity to do another. R. Smith said, “Most of the critical things in life, which become the starting points of human destiny, are little things.” Do little things now, and big things will come to you asking to be done.
One thing is for sure: what isn’t tried won’t work. The most important thing is to begin, even though the first step is the hardest. I agree with Vince Lombardi: “Inches make champions.” Take one small step right now. Don’t ignore the small things. The kite flies because of its tail. It’s the little things that count: sometimes a safety pin carries more responsibility than a bank president.
H. Storey remarked, “Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you could do a bigger thing well, too.” Consider what Pat Robertson said: “Despise not the day of small beginnings because you can make all your mistakes anonymously.” Value the little things. One day, you may look back and realize they were the big things. Dante said, “From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.” Remember this on your way up: the biggest dog was once a pup.