It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, (Aug 13 1815-1852), US novelist; She is best known for her Kitty Brown books, a four-volume religious series; also The Country Minister's Wife, 1851.