“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”
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American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Ci… 1929–1968Related quotes
 
                            
                        
                        
                        “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)”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
 
                            
                        
                        
                        “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 
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                        “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)
                                    
 
        
     
                             
                            