“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”
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“If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.”

“We can do no great things; only small things with great love.(mother Teresa)”
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“All men can do great things, if they know what great things are.”
Great Things
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XI - Cash and Credit


As quoted in Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (2007) by Brian Kolodiejchuk
2000s

“Great acts I reach to, to small things I bow.”
L'alte non temo, e l'umili non sdegno.
Canto II, stanza 46 (tr. Fairfax)
Variant translation https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofquot00harbuoft#page/331/mode/1up: The proud I fear not, nor the meek disdain.
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)