Little Things Count Quotes

#1. So how do you count in Happiness? It's a little different, but just as easy to learn. In Happiness, you count by making a list of five things that make you happy. Do this daily. Some things will appear on your list every day, and some things will be new from one day to the next.

Valerie Alexander

#2. When a New York attorney general brings a lawsuit against a prominent business person, there are two things you can count on out of that office - lots of political bluster and little accountability.

Kenneth Langone

#3. Giving someone gifts cannot equate to spending quality time with them. Never replace time with things. Time is precious and once lost cannot be regained. Make every moment count...you never know when your time will be up.

Kemi Sogunle

#4. My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich.

Danny Gregory

#5. Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.

Kimberly Quinn

#6. Typically, we make money when we buy things. We count the profits later, but we know we have captured them when we buy the bargain.

Seth Klarman

#7. I don't have any frustrations. It sounds a little silly, but life is too short for me. I don't worry about all the things that happen, I just think about what to do with them. I work a lot with blind people in my spare time and I count my blessings every day.

Paul Polman

#8. Nothing lasts forever, so live life large. Do all the things you've been putting off, avoid the drama, laugh it off! Make sure your loved ones know it and make every moment count.

Karen Gibbs

#9. The atom has taught me that the little things do count - most.

Sri Chinmoy

#10. Life is graded on the curve. It's not how big you are, how strong you are, how smart you are. It's how good you are at the things that count relative to the people around you.

Robert H. Frank

#11. I can't tell how much of our connection is because of the things we still have in common or the one thing that bonds us for life. But no matter what happens, I know I can totally count on Erin for anything. And she knows I'd do anything for her.

Susane Colasanti

#12. Focus on what you know you can do. Know what you're capable of on any given day, and what you can count on. Do the simple things well, and then use the confidence to build up the rest of your game. Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

Mia Hamm

#13. In these fast and fickle times, it's nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the last page of The Great Gatsby; the near-religious harmonies of the Beach Boys' "California Girls"; and the lifelong friendship of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

Sarah Vowell

#14. All the beautiful things in this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.

Patrick McCabe

#15. Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

John Piper

#16. some could name things in their environment, others could count or say the alphabet, still others could recite whole books, word for word, from memory. However, they rarely used their speech to communicate with others. The

Sally Ozonoff

#17. People who don't like you almost never come up to you. That's a lot of years of saying things that I know a lot of people in this country hate me for. And the number of times someone has come up to me and said something negative, I could count on one hand.

Bill Maher

#18. The breaking of day changes all things, Snorri. Nothing endures beyond the count of the sun. Pile a sufficient weight of mornings upon a thing and it will change. Even the rocks themselves will not outlast the morning.

Mark Lawrence

#19. Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.

Thomas Jefferson

#20. It's when we stop and think that we rediscover the courage, wit, compassion, imagination, delight, frustration, discovery, and devotion that work can provoke - in short, all the things at work that do count, beyond measure.

Margaret Heffernan

#21. Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count!

Alan Ball

#22. I've walked away from more climbs than I can count, just because I sensed that things were not quite right.

Alex Honnold

#23. He could add something to the list of things you weren't supposed to do. Don't get hurt, don't get dirty, don't get drunk, don't get scared, don't count on it. You ended up doing all of them.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

#24. The THINGS that COUNT most IN LIFE ARE the THINGS that CAN'T BE COUNTED.

Zig Ziglar

#25. My brain didn't seem to want to conform itself to the task at hand and kept wandering to stupid things like a compulsion to line up all the blue M&Ms or count how many times the word "to" appeared in the "To be or not to be" speech (fifteen, as it turns out).

E.E. Holmes

#26. Try not to look like that," Ascher said under breath, after we were in the elevator.
"Like what?" I asked.
"Like you're expecting ninjas to leap out of the trash cans. This is a party."
"Everyone knows there's no such things as ninjas," I scoffed. "But it will be something. Count on it.

Jim Butcher

#27. Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

Thomas A Kempis

#28. School just speeds things up ... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.

Louis Sachar

#29. I still have things to do. I met up with the stars, but I could not count them. I drew water from the well, but I could not offer it.

Eduardo Galeano

#30. The forces of immorality and Marxism and evil count on one thing: Us not showing up. And often, they're justified in that. And I think if you look at some of the things that have happened this year with the Freedom Agenda, it should encourage you, that when you show up, we actually win.

Matt Shea

#31. All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

Roger Bacon

#32. The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.

Jennifer Niven

#33. You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business
along with the short memory of our readers.

Steve Forbes

#34. Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past,you must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future.

Mario Puzo

#35. To wake, and sleep, and know that one is loved; to hear, as I hear now, the whisper of a footfall; to feel the touch of hands; these things, above all else, are to be desired. I count myself fortunate, in that, for a little while, I have known them.

Keith Roberts

#36. I try to wait until things set up just right before I take a trade. Then, when I'm ready to take the trade, I slowly count to ten before I pick up the phone. It's better to have the wrong idea and good timing than the right idea and bad timing.

Linda Bradford Raschke

#37. The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#38. I do get very angry at things. My wife has to count to ten because if she gets annoyed at me being annoyed, then I get annoyed at her being annoyed at me being annoyed.

Simon Pegg

#39. Do things that count, but don't count the things you do.

Tanya Masse

#40. It's the little things that count, hundreds of 'em.

Cliff Shaw

#41. Don't count too much on God," said Mitrofanii, quenching his spiritual son's optimism. "He has plenty of other things to worry about besides boot heels.

Boris Akunin

#42. Not to be rude, but it was all pointless," I noted from across the room. Four eyes narrowed at me. "What? I said 'not to be rude'. That's like saying 'God bless them' right after you say bad things about someone. It means it doesn't count!

Molly Harper

#43. Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.

Hamdi Ulukaya

#44. Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on earth. This good isn't usually accomplished in bold actions, but in singular acts of kindness between people. It's the little things that count, because they are more spontaneous and show who you truly are.

Dannion Brinkley

#45. Paul declared in Philippians 3:8: "I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ" (NASB).

Charles F. Stanley

#46. You can count on time for two things. One is that it will pass. The other is that it will never shut up.

Bill Richardson

#47. Nothing was easy with people, but she could always count on herself to make things more difficult than they had to be.

Joe Abercrombie

#48. I believe in things I can count on, like beer and ESPN and my grandmother's pecan pie.

Justin Timberlake

#49. "I count a lot of things that there's no need to count," Cameron said. "Just because that's the way I am. But I count all the things that need to be counted."

Richard Brautigan

#50. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.

Joyce Giraud

#51. Every day, I genuinely count my blessings. One of the greatest things in life is to do a job you really enjoy.

George Osborne

#52. I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one ... should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness ... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#53. I've no sympathy with people to whom things happen. It may be that their luck is bad, but is that to count in their favor? I

Cormac McCarthy

#54. I ... count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ.

Robert J. Morgan

#55. The beautiful thing about this adventure called faith is that we can count on Him never to lead us astray.

Charles R. Swindoll

#56. It occurred to me that I was going to have to make the most of this summer, really make it count, in case there wasn't another one quite like it. I was getting older too. Things couldn't stay the same forever.

Jenny Han

#57. Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.

Stella McCartney

#58. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#59. Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.

Robert Anthony Kreucher

#60. There are too many things to count that I like about London.

Andrew Wyatt

#61. We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

Plutarch

#62. I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. That no matter what budget you're doing, you should be dreaming bigger than the budget you have, and then it's a matter of reigning it in to the reality. You try to make things count.

Guillermo Del Toro

#63. How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?

Antony Gormley

#64. One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.

Jon Kyl

#65. Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.

Gloria Gaither

#66. While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamation projects regardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to make character count among the qualities you seek in others.

John Wooden

#67. You have to live your life and not count on things being there tomorrow or the next day.

Tere Michaels

#68. Oh, no; I should find there people who would force me to understand things of which I would prefer to remain ignorant, and who would try to explain to me, in spite of myself, a mystery which even they do not understand.

Alexander Dumas

#69. What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.

Terry Brooks

#70. No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

Jonathan Kozol

#71. The only person I can count on is myself. It's up to me to create the life I want. I can't blame my parents or Scott or anyone else for the way things are.

Susane Colasanti

#72. I feel like I've been able to live a dream life, but my view of things is absolutely inside behavior about how I behave and how I count on other people behaving.

Kevin Costner

#73. The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

Arnold Bennett

#74. If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.

Roland Joffe

#75. It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.

Jonathan Tropper

#76. Thanks, Gav. I can always count on you to say things that help me in no way whatsoever.

M. Leighton

#77. There is a calming aura at the ocean's edge, despite the frothing foam, crashing waves and roaring white noise. The ocean looks the same on your good days and your bad days. Nice to know on the worse of days that there are few things you can utterly count on. P. 107

Susan Meissner

#78. Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.

Jarvis Cocker

#79. Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

Bill Gates

#80. I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.

Lewis Carroll

#81. No matter where I am, especially when I'm on tour around the country, Caesar salad is my standby. In a random city and eating in random to-go restaurants, you're kind of scared about trying things, but you can always count on a Caesar salad.

Sasha Cohen

#82. You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.

Tom Petty

#83. When you love, age, height and weight are just .numbers I agree and filling that the heart, has its own way ... count people and things!

Georgia Kakalopoulou

#84. I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#85. Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.

Ayn Rand

#86. I'm not sure why that story came back to me while I sat huddled in Sydney's car on the way to the lake. It happened so long ago. I guess maybe it was because it gave me the assurance that when things got bad, there were certain people you could always count on.

D.J. MacHale

#87. Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.

Ron Paul

#88. Great gift-giving involves three things: you feel what the other feels; you give freely; and you count sacrifice a bargain ... those gifts are truly great which are given simply for the joy they bring to another heart.

Henry B. Eyring

#89. Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting.

Albert Einstein

#90. Imagination is one of the few things a man can count on if he's got the reality to feed it.

James Anderson

#91. The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men, but count everything in the estimate of God. Paul

Oswald Chambers

#92. Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.

Donald Judd

#93. The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

Pablo Casals

#94. People called me tough. And capable. And they said I was someone they could count on. Those are all nice things. Kind of. But they're not the same as loving, or kind, or joyful. I was not those things. I

Shauna Niequist

#95. I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.

Count Basie

#96. If you do good things only because you fear punishment or rejection if you don't, does it really count? Think about it. Are they real choices or are you being held hostage?

Kimberly Giles

#97. Sometimes in life you have to count on the little things to keep you happy ...

Rida Altaf

#98. Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care, so many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we've got a lot of work to do.

Ai-jen Poo

#99. I love dishes and house things so I kind of lost it a little bit on the house ware. One-thousand thread-count sheets, that's what I indulged in.

Toni Braxton

#100. Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

Charles Spurgeon