Quotes About It's The Little Things That Count

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

Cliff Shaw

#2. Sometimes it's the little things that count most.

Alexandra Adornetto

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. When it comes down to it, it really is the little things that count most.

Robert Cheeke

#6. Such is the magic of Christmas in childhood, thought the Count a little wistfully, that a single gift can provide one with endless hours of adventure while not even requiring one to leave one's house.

Amor Towles

#7. I lost count of how many times photographers and designers would tell me to lose a bit of weight, especially as I got a little older and my body started to develop.

Marie Helvin

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

Sri Chinmoy

#9. Eponine and Azelma did not notice Cosette. To them she was like the dog. These three little girls could not count twenty-four years among them all, and they already represented all human society; on one side envy, on the other disdain.

Victor Hugo

#10. 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

#11. Unless you count the way the words sink into Neil, the way his life feels a little more solid than it did five minutes before.

David Levithan

#12. I was always willing to say, "Let's see what happens," when something came up that looked like it might help me get a little closer to where I wanted to be ...

Count Basie

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. To be fully human has little to do with always being the centre of attention, getting your way and having all your ambitions met. To be fully human is to be like Christ, to 'count others better than yourselves' (Phil 2:13)...It takes rare strength to treat others as more important than yourself.

Dick Keyes

#16. I calculate the breadth of Steven's shoulders, now wider than mine;
watch him tear open the Blokus game he likes to play with me after school;
count the hours between now and Dad coming home to take over
and I am only a little afraid
of the night.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#17. When the world changes, you have to adapt and change with it. It's not just death and taxes that we can always count on in life ... add 'change' to that mix. No matter what, tomorrow will always be a little bit different than today ...

Christopher Jones

#18. You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little.

Pat Buchanan

#19. The ones who count are those persons who - though they may be of little renown - respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.

Martin Buber

#20. We're all a little weird, Isabelle. It's our differences that make us unique and you shouldn't let anyone, even a boy you might like, tell you anything different.

Melyssa Winchester

#21. 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

#22. Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get you anywhere. A club is judged solely on results, and to get results, you must win ball games.

Billy Evans

#23. 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

#24. Evans made himself their spokesman. "Charlie and Joe," he offered. "Remember us? We brought a friend back with us this time." Girls evidently didn't count in this little subdivision of the underworld; a miscalculation many a shady character has made.

Cornell Woolrich

#25. Maybe I'll take a little better care of myself, but I wouldn't count on it.

Alex Trebek

#26. I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety hair.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#27. I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.

Billie Holiday

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

Stella McCartney

#29. The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline
it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#30. Physical features count little unless they are illumined from within.

Mark Helprin

#31. 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

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

Rida Altaf

#33. There is so little time. We need to make every moment count.

Shannon Delany

#34. Okay, so maybe she had entertained the idea once
or nine hundred times
of cupping his backside and giving a nice, hard little squeeze, but she would never act on it. Probably. She was pretty sure. But definitely, if she did, she would know it. Savor it. Make it count.

Erin McCarthy

#35. I was so taken by HIM, but he was not Count Vronsky or Rhett Buttler. But in my little world he was as dashing and handsome. I knew it was a doomed affair. I knew it instinctively.

Cecilia Scott

#36. We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it tells us to "trust.

Peter Kreeft

#37. God, I love the waltz, the way the elegance of the one-count draws your attention away from the restlessness of the two-three.

Elizabeth Little

#38. Life is slow and subtle. Love takes time to show and grow. In life, little acts count. In fact, that is what a life is all about, a long parade of moments deceptively inconsequential.

John F. Kavanaugh

#39. Stanley Cup hockey comes around every year, when games start to count in multiples of best-of-seven series, and the players seem to put more attention into every pass, every check, every annoying little trick.

George Vecsey

#40. He loves but little who can say and count in words how much he loves

Dante Alighieri

#41. Everybody that breaks up has a little tally of their victories which they count after the relationship to see how they did; cheating gives you a million tallies and more or less makes the entire relationship a lie.

A.D. Aliwat

#42. I had never been out of the country before. And maybe this trip didn't technically count because, well, America had officially imploded and I hadn't needed a passport to cross the border, but I was more than a little disappointed we hadn't run into a mariachi band yet. Donde esta el Zombies?

Rachel Higginson

#43. Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#44. Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.

Libba Bray