
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”
“If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.”
As quoted in Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (2007) by Brian Kolodiejchuk
2000s
“If we may compare small things with great.”
Si parva licet componere magnis.
Book IV, line 176 (tr. Fairclough). Cf. Eclogues 1.23.
Georgics (29 BC)
“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