WE WANT HALF A DOZEN LIONS, THEN EXCELLENT WORK WILL BE TURNED OUT BY HUNDREDS OF JACKELS

 When thousands of people are benefited, there is a great tomtoming, and the whole country is loud in notes of praise. But then the machine has already been set agoing, and even a boy can work it, or a fool add to it some impetus. Grasp this that, that benefit done to a village or two, that orphanage with its twenty orphans, those ten or twenty workers — all these are enough; they form the nucleus, never to be destroyed. From these, hundreds of thousands of people will be benefited in time. Now we want half a dozen lions, then excellent work will be turned out by even hundreds of jackals. .

- Swami Vivekananda
21st February, 1900. The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/CLIV Akhandanandan