Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968)
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along not by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker…
Quoted in Susan Hunt’s The True Woman: The Beauty and Strength of a Godly Woman, 1997, Wheaton: Crossway Books, page 112.