Top 100 Quotes About Little Things
#1. Always dream big, but respect little things that surrounds you every day on your life path!
Marat M'saev Daan
#2. Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin
#3. One of my modeling bookers told me that the most important thing is to try to be vigilant about taking care of yourself. Get sleep, don't be afraid to trim your hair even if you're trying to grow it out, don't bite your fingernails, and stay in shape. A lot of it is in the little things.
Julia Jones
#4. In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned.
Ali MacGraw
#5. My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
Saffron Aldridge
#6. If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'.
Elisabeth Elliot
#8. We spend our spare time taking care of little things. I can watch a little bit of college and professional football if I want to ... Our favorite pastime is trying to take pictures of our hometowns from space.
Kevin A. Ford
#9. Ever feel like killing somebody just to see if you could get away with it? Sure, you have. Everybody has little things that get on their nerves.
John Waters
#10. Glamour to the outside world is taking some sense of care in your appearance and should give you inner confidence. You can do a full on look or you can do a 'less is more' look but you want to have those components, those little things that are special to you.
Zac Posen
#11. The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
Lamar Odom
#12. There are little things that get on my nerves, like people who have reading material in their powder room. When you go in someone's house, and next to the toilet they have a huge basket of magazines, I find that repellent. I recommend against straining while reading.
John Waters
#13. If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.
Mother Teresa
#15. Amazing how much more you appreciate the little things when all the big things are taken from you.
Marilyn Grey
#16. Fifteen birds in five firtrees,
their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze!
But, funny little birds, they had no wings!
O what shall we do with the funny little things?
Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot;
fry them, boil them and eat them hot?
J.R.R. Tolkien
#17. In America, they make a lot of fuss over little things.
Khushwant Singh
#18. Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.
Thomas Sowell
#19. I've had journals ever since I was really little. Sometimes I write poems and stuff, but for the most part I write down what happens to me during the day that I don't want to forget. So I have books filled with little things like that.
Miranda Cosgrove
#20. Life is filled with tragedy, with long patches of struggle and with, I think, beautiful bursts of joy and accomplishment. Blessed with those moments, you just try to relax as much as possible and focus on the little things, like the joy of changing your baby's diaper.
David Dastmalchian
#21. If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
William H. McRaven
#22. Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Blaise Pascal
#23. Enjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#24. I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.
Barbara Ann Kipfer
#25. They [Americans] believe that the terrors of vast problems yield to the effects of many small solutions.
Use little things to break big things, says Saint Paul, describing an essential feature of the psychology of hope.
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
#26. Be faithful in the little things, for in them our strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.
Mother Teresa
#27. True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Charles Simmons
#28. I'm a wise Latina woman. Whatever, man. Thank God I'm not in politics, because the fact that you have to explain everything - I'd kill myself. I can't take all those little things they dissect. I'm like, 'Oh my God, get a life.' I don't have time for this.
Justina Machado
#29. The great things of life are what they seem to be, and for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, are often difficult to interpret. But the little things of life are symbols. We receive our bitter lessons most easily through them.
Oscar Wilde
#30. Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.
Annie Lennox
#31. But maybe that's the way it should be. Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.
Haruki Murakami
#32. Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.
Joe Abercrombie
#33. Except for the fact that I'm straight," Tate finally announced. Logan toyed with his glass for a moment before he conceded. "Yes, well, I don't let little things like that stand in my way.
Ella Frank
#34. Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever ... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
Aaron Siskind
#35. Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.
Henry Petroski
#37. Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.
Nate Berkus
#38. Tolerations are the seemingly inconsequential little things that drain away your energy.
Scott Blanchard
#39. The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it?
Sandra Cisneros
#40. The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.
Hannah More
#41. A real relationship's based on trust and understanding, the sharing of little things. Moments of happiness and laughter. Realising you've both just had the same thought, or were about to say the same thing.
Peter May
#42. We began to do little things, have little scenes where we just talked about things that had nothing to do with the plot. In fact, in the beginning, they didn't want us to do that. But as time went on, you see that in so many shows. I think we were the first to do that.
Don Knotts
#43. The great doing of little things, makes the great life.
Eugenia Price
#44. Then there's everything else. There are a ton of little things to keep in mind - having the right diapers on hand, ensuring you get their medicines, understanding their bed times, how they like their baths - a million things that are both unique to the child.
William Gregory
#45. What sort of difficulties would happen when people of different cultures try to come together to worship? Tiny little things such as let's tell jokes with each other.
Michael Emerson
#46. How come the little things bother you when you are in a bad position? They don't bother you in good positions.
Yasser Seirawan
#47. Learning never ends, therefore, have a keen eye for learning and studying how successful business and people run the little things that business people might overlook but they are key to their success.
Donald Allen
#48. My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.
Daniel Dae Kim
#49. A great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.
Lydia M. Child
#50. To do carefully and constantly and kindly many little things is not a little thing.
Rosemary Curtis Neider
Valerie J. Steimle
#51. Love's the sum total of all the little things you can never really put your finger on. Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops but you get warm.
Jo Nesbo
#52. That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there.
Adrian Gonzalez
#53. Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#54. I guess I haven't really done anything romantic for anyone. I think my boyfriend is more romantic than I am. I think little things like sending unexpected text messages, or when I'm out of town I send postcards. I think that's sweet ... but probably not very romantic.
Emma Roberts
#55. The things we remember the clearest aren't necessarily the big, heart-stopping moments everyone expects. They're the little things that add up. The little things most people look over but that mean the most.
Emma Hart
#56. I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.
LL Cool J
#57. I don't think you have to do something so big to be brave. And it's the little things that are harder anyway.
Morgan Matson
#58. Embrace the change you desperately need. Tear down your walls and show gratitude for little things.
J. Loren Norris
#59. When it comes down to it, it really is the little things that count most.
Robert Cheeke
#60. Sometimes life becomes a bit difficult. There are hard times and even some little things can mess up your life. Make the best out of these moments. Don't forget to smile. You can cry as loud as you want, but smile. Just stand up and go on. You can do everything you want.
Miyavi
#61. If you want to be a person with a large vision, you must cultivate the habit of doing the little things well.
Charles R. Swindoll
#62. I knew one hundred little things about Noah Shaw but when he kissed me I couldn't remember my own name.
Michelle Hodkin
#63. I could do great things, if I weren't so busy doing little things.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#65. We don't forget ... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.
Alexander McCall Smith
#66. It's always the little things, that we overlook, that are most important.
Gosho Aoyama
#67. At the beginning of my TV and movie stuff, I would be really critical of myself, but I've gotten better and better. There's always little things that I think, "Oh, that could have been whatever," but most of the time I'm able to let go and watch like an audience member.
Mireille Enos
#68. Did love really require grand gestures? Wasn't true love to be found in the little things, like holding one's hand or sitting comfortably around a gentle fire?
Maya Rodale
#69. I look around the room and can't help but think about how it is the little things we look back on in life. I wonder how often people think that they should pay more attention to them.
Erika Lance
#70. The little things that you saw with a child's eye and that will never go away. That's what consciousness is all about.
Derek Mahon
#71. Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things.
Robert Brault
#72. Little things are important. Eating, sleeping, being clean, exercise. Regaining control.
Patricia Cornwell
#73. You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
A.S. Byatt
#74. As it turns out, Plutarch, consciously or unconsciously, touched on a truth that most of us feel, but rarely meditate upon: the little things in behaviour are the door not only to the real character of people but also to their soul.
Nicos Hadjicostis
#75. We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.
Steve Alford
#76. -The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave.
Nora Roberts
#77. If, like Jacob, you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things.
John Ross Macduff
#78. Move on, don't let the little things of Life hold you back. Forget, Forgive, and Move on. - RVM.
R.v.m.
#79. Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.
Agatha Christie
#80. It's the little things that make up life.
Jenny Han
#81. It isn't a hunch but the subconscious mind, which is the creative mind, at work. That is the mind which makes artists do things without their knowing how they came to do them. Perhaps with me it was the cumulative effect of a lot of little things individually insignificant but collectively powerful.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#82. Little people doing little things in little places everywhere can change the world.
Anwar Fazal
#83. I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.
Paula Cole
#85. Sometimes I'll let little things get to me. Or I'll make a big deal out of little things.
Jennette McCurdy
#86. I love him, and he loves me. And being together makes even the little things better.
Trisha Leigh
#87. We cannot do great things on this earth. We can only do little things with great love.
Richard Carlson
#88. I am not your average girl. That isn't me. I want you to notice when I'm not around. I want you to remember the little things. I want you to see me for who I am. I don't want to be like everybody else. I follow my heart and never look back. I'll go on shining no matter what ... Always shine.
Anonymous
#89. I've been blessed with some luck, great ability and athleticism. That's really what's made me a great player, but I think the reason I've been able to last this long is the little things like taking care of my body.
Champ Bailey
#90. Be vigorous and full of energy, and make ceaseless efforts. This means that little things do not discourage you and that you approach all things boldly and with an attitude of determination.
Koichi Tohei
#91. If you want to play a cool punk club, that's great - but punk clubs don't have any toilet seats. After a while, little things like that become big issues.
Joe Casey
#92. Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small, with some seemingly insignificant breach of integrity that escalated. The little things do matter. It is not possible to profess righteousness while flirting with sin.
Sheri L. Dew
#94. Little things are a good place to start. Larger understanding is built on little things. We put those little things we learn together into larger concepts.
Terry Goodkind
#95. Little things in my past that I really thought were over and done with were still elements of the puzzle that weren't pieced together, and so she helped me do that.
Marie Osmond
#96. If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.
Hudson Taylor
#97. It's the little things that count, hundreds of 'em.
Cliff Shaw
#98. You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.
Andy Warhol
#99. Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.
Sharon Draper
#100. I learned there that the key was first to prioritize all the individual stressors and then act. I break it all down into the little things I can manage. The stressors that I can't affect, I don't worry about. The ones I can affect, I simply deal with one at a time.
Mark Owen