Small Appreciation Quotes

#1. Eastern races have but small appreciation of punctuality.

Ambrose B. Rathborne

#2. The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

Ellen Glasgow

#3. He expressed appreciation for the information I provided, taking a dozen pages of notes in his small neat hand, and asking plenty of questions, not to challenge but just to elucidate. He did offer a pointed comment about what he called our dodge with Helmar, with his ward upstairs, and I rebutted.

Rex Stout

#4. Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.

Carlos Salinas

#5. There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

Robert Breault

#6. Good actions can strengthen ourselves and inspire good actions to others.

Plato

#7. Basically, as a kid I grew up to a lot of good music, and part of my appreciation for music, from being a small child, was appreciating Jamaican music.

Adrian Young

#8. The same tongue that tastes a cube of sugar when it is placed in a small cup of water and appreciates it is the same tongue that tells the same cube of sugar how tasteless it is when it is placed in a large volume of water.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#9. The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.

Louis Agassiz

#10. I don't know much about football, but when I see one player take his opponent down with a gruesome flying tackle, I can't help but have immediate, newfound respect. Any derby girl worth her skates would kill to throw a block like that.

Shauna Cross

#11. The thanks of a weak one are but of little value," he muttered, "but you have them, for truly, in this past week, little but scraps have come my way- and for all my body is small, yet is my appetite unseemly great.

Isaac Asimov

#12. 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

#13. A very small percentage of the people in this world will actually experience and live today. So many people will be stuck on another day, another time that traumatized them and caused them to spiritually stutter so they miss out on this day.

Steve Maraboli

#14. The company Liberated People represents just not liberation of different nations around the world; it can be special liberation days. It can be what the company represents and helps highlight someone's personal liberation date.

Gbenga Akinnagbe

#15. I always have the best of everything.

Hattie McDaniel

#16. When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.

Elizabeth Berg

#17. You don't have to be beautiful to be shallow. You needn't be small or weak to be a coward. Shitty personalities come in surprising packages and anybody can be an asshole. So value the good ones, whoever they are. Recognize them when you see them and don't let them go.

Jennifer DeLucy

#18. The time left over from these good works was given to 'making a home' for her brother, whom she adored, though she was completely undomesticated and went about it with more enthusiasm than skill.

Barbara Pym

#19. The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.

Colum McCann

#20. Fiction is the best the self-help book.

Quinn Barrett

#21. There have been concerns about the long-term prospect that we lose control of certain kinds of intelligences. I fundamentally don't think that's going to happen.

Eric Horvitz

#22. Once upon a time,
there was a Zen sign
at every small railway crossing in America

Stop. Look. And listen.

Dick Allen

#23. Things are never over even when they're over.

Maureen McCarthy

#24. The most evocative life memories, which produced a synesthesia of emotions, consist of a host of small pleasures intertwined with the homespun stitches of love, affection, kindness, humility, and appreciation of nature.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#25. To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

Alain De Botton

#26. Just an observation: it is impossible to be both grateful and depressed. Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.

Steve Maraboli

#27. Joseph goes to the Social Service Department. "Can I help you?" the secretary inquires. Joseph answers: "Yes, I am God. I've come to see about a release from the hospital.

Milton Rokeach

#28. When you're stuck sitting in a comfort zone, small problems become magnified. Get out of your comfort zone, touch the edge, and you come back with an appreciation for life.

Barbara Warren

#29. In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response.

F.R. Leavis

#30. Your best champion and cheerleader is yourself. Always be proud of your accomplishments, big or small.

Ayanna Howard

#31. The darkest night is ignorance.

Gautama Buddha

#32. In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men
genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.

Thomas Carlyle