Top 100 Quotes About Small Things
#1. Why have you always cared so much about these tiny worlds?" "Why have you never?" He had once. When she'd cared about him. He'd made himself small for her and walked in her manner, tending small things. But being small was so much more complicated than being God.
Karen Marie Moning
#2. Perhaps it was the demands of having to take on me and the farm that left so little time for the gentler things. Such small things: a kiss goodnight, a word of affection ... a child can starve with a full plate.
Nora Roberts
#3. Lord make me satisfied with small things. Make me content to live on the outside of life. God make me love the rind!
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#4. We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.
Theodore Roosevelt
#5. I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not - the big things in the small things.
Rachel Joyce
#6. Life isn't only about the big moments whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's about the small things that stretch out to strengthen the most tenuous bound.
Sarah Dessen
#7. Small things can start us off in new ways of thinking, and I was started off by the postage stamps of our area.
V.S. Naipaul
#8. Nothing that I can encounter today can be as bad as what is behind me. There are small things that used to upset me, but now I just think: Who cares?
Ingrid Betancourt
#9. It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true
big things are often just small things that are noticed.
Markus Zusak
#10. And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.
Arundhati Roy
#11. I enjoy that, and the idea of doing small things over a period of time. I think there are certain things you can do for water control in America, because that will be our most precious resource. In America, you pay more for water than you do for gas.
Robin Williams
#12. If you feel stuck in your life, like it's passing you by, like there's something way better for you somewhere out there and you're missing it, try this - try throwing yourself into the small things and repeating to yourself: This is where I start.
Rob Bell
#13. I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
#15. He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. Great things do not just happen by impulse,
but as a succession of small things linked together.
Vincent Van Gogh
#17. Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.
Christina Baldwin
#19. They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their world.
Tove Jansson
#20. Most of us will never do great things. But we can do small things in a great way.
Maren Mouritsen
#21. I'll never throw these small things away. There will never be a time when I don't want them, all the tiny parts of Cal that made a life.
Cath Crowley
#22. To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .
Elbert Hubbard
#23. SMALL THINGS
& GREAT
He that lets
the small things bind him
leaves the great
undone behind him.
Piet Hein
#24. My mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.
Anchee Min
#26. Let others lead small lives, but not you.. Let others argue over small things, but not you.. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
Jim Rohn
#27. Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.
Michelangelo
#28. If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.
John C. Maxwell
#29. I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making animal collages, I just do it. When I want to write, I write. It's all part of the same thing for me.
Matthea Harvey
#30. Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love ... the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.
Mother Teresa
#31. Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.
Diane Ackerman
#32. The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.
Jennifer Niven
#34. I think the success around any product is really about subtle insights. You need a great product and a bigger vision to execute against, but it's really those small things that make the big difference.
Chad Hurley
#35. One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.
Janet Suzman
#36. Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa
#37. These days I have a ton of things to smile about. I feel like an adult again. I hope by reading this book, you or someone you care about will see that there will be things for you to smile about, even small things, as you work to recover from a TBI or another disability.
Amy Rankin
#39. There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.
Mother Teresa
#40. Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. Gratitude is a many-colored quality, reaching in all directions. It goes out for small things and for large; it is a God-ward going.
Faith Baldwin
#41. First achieve small things and you will achieve great things ultimately... and no one will forget.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#42. A good way to take a baby step into the world of animal rights is to make a list of small things you can do to help your issue and work your way up to the big things. Make a promise to do one thing on your list each month.
Jenna Morasca
#43. Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?
Alexander McCall Smith
#44. There was comfort in that. The knowledge that wherever you were in the universe, the small things were always exactly the same. Attracting and Repelling. It was only by not looking closely enough that you saw difference.
Matt Haig
#45. Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G.K. Chesterton
#46. If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.
Idries Shah
#47. So many people overlook the small things. The way someone's laugh makes you smile. The way their eyes can captivate you. How the way they speak can enlighten you, encourage you, inspire you. A touch of their hand to yours. A quick kiss on the cheek. An 'I love you.
Jennifer Reinfried
#48. When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?
Muriel Barbery
#49. Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.
Billy Graham
#50. Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
Adolphe Monod
#51. A car with a small hole in its fuel tank unattended to shall see its fuel draining little by little and it shall only be left in the middle of a long journey! So is life! Mind the small things!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#52. For a man to be great, he must not dwell on small things, though he may enjoy them.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#53. Just two small things: meditation and let-go. Remember these two key words: meditation and surrender. Meditation will take you in, and surrender will take you into the whole. And this is the whole of religion. Within these two words Buddha has condensed the whole essence of religion.
Rajneesh
#54. One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.
Sophocles
#55. We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.
Eugene O'Neill
#56. What's it like to face your own mortality? "It makes you think," I reply. "The big things, the small things. The dreams, the regrets.
Leylah Attar
#57. I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.
Ellen Hopkins
#58. You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Alvin Toffler
#59. One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.
Criss Jami
#60. It's not about one person doing one big thing ... It's about a lot of people doing small things that really make the difference.
Kevin Jonas
#61. Don't try to do great thing, but don't forget to do small things with great care and great love.
Debasish Mridha
#62. By giving attention and respect to small things, you raise them to a new level. Journalists find beauty everywhere.
Cathy Johnson
#64. Too much contemporary fiction seems purposefully to address small things in small ways. And yet why not try for the all-inclusive, the gripping, for the audacious?
Darin Strauss
#65. I don't miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
Neil Gaiman
#66. 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
#67. It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.
Markus Zusak
#68. When one is busy, as she was in Donegal, life whistles by. One struggles to keep up with oneself. It is vital, when one slows down, to be conscious of small things, small moments. To take pains.
Orna Ross
#69. One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
#71. Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world.
Eduardo Galeano
#72. I dream of big things. I work for the small things. If you're going to dream, you might as well dream big. A lot of that came from my mother. She was adamant about the work ethic
about how you can't just dream things.
Kevin Costner
#73. All of the images of Jesus and of the kingdom are small things: be a light in the darkness.
Philip Yancey
#74. There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.
Ronald Steel
#76. Find your rituals, develop your routines, create those practices that ground and center you. Stick to them, don't apologize for them, treat them, even the small things, like they're big things.
Rob Bell
#77. do small things well each day. Develop your intellectual base a little bit more. Be more loving. Be more innovative. Take more risks. Develop deeper relationships.
Robin S. Sharma
#78. When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#79. If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.
Barack Obama
#80. So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously
Dalai Lama
#81. Greatness is achieved, not only
by doing great things, but also,
by making the small things we do
great.
S. Tarr
#82. My hindsight seemed unbearably clear tonight. I could see every mistake I'd made, every bit of harm I'd done, the small things and the big things.
Stephenie Meyer
#83. There are creatures in this world, small things and pretty things, which burn within them a fire for survival.
S.C. Barrus
#84. You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. You can do small things.
Patti Smith
#85. David slayed Goliath with a single stone.
You crippled my heart with a single lie.
This is the enormity of small things.
Key Ballah
#86. As I remember my grandfather and those Christmas mornings he gave for a little girl's pleasure, I know that often a big life starts with doing small things.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#87. It is so often the small things overlooked which leave our schemes in ruins.
Joe Abercrombie
#88. If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
#89. Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly.
Fernand Point
#90. Every once in awhile try to do something nice for somebody you don't know, even if it's just leaving an opening in traffic for them to merge into, small things like that give people hope that we're not all assholes.
Joshua Neik
#91. You can set up housekeeping on one side of the looking glass or the other--the side that makes big things small or small things big.
Carrie Fisher
#92. As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.
Rumer Godden
#93. I think that this might be the easiest way to live - just concentrate On the small things, and never let your mind wander on big things,
David Levithan
#95. You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.
Mother Teresa
#96. Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair.
Valerie Wilson Wesley
#97. If you're not content with the small things, then you won't be content with the big things.
Anthony Liccione
#98. When a man looks at the stars, he grows calm and forgets small things. They answer his questions and show him that his earth is only one of the million worlds. Hold your soul still and look upward often, and you will understand their speech. Never forget the stars.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#99. It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.
Hannah More
#100. Revolutions come about when small things happen to small people.
Jennifer Donnelly
