Top 100 Small Big Quotes
#1. Every time I gaze at stars above, I feel small, big, infinite and connected all at the same time, and tonight on the Amazon is no different.
Michael Sanders
#2. Make the small big and the few many.
Laozi
#3. In the aftermath of death Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.
Anna Quindlen
#4. Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.
George R R Martin
#5. The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.
Amory Lovins
#6. The Ocean is big,
I am small, yes.
But I am nothing,
And I realize that it is worth the struggle
To Live
And it means everything to be loved
Amy Grant
#7. I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.
April Bloomfield
#8. It takes the same effort to dream small or dream big. Dream big!
Mani Maran
#9. I would say on the other side of the equation that there were really some massive sales and massive enthusiasm for some films that were given big releases. And I'm not really sure that happens in quite the same way, small films getting big releases. Maybe it still does, I don't know.
Whit Stillman
#10. All children can do things to help, whether how big or small - by donating toys or lending a hand in the community.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#11. My ideas tend to be either really big in terms of like, the logistics, or really small.
Cary Fukunaga
#12. Replace "This project is so big and important" with "I can take one small step.
Neil A. Fiore
#14. When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made the dark small again.
That is the best of all things we can do for one another: Make the dark small.
Dean Koontz
#15. Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.
Heather O'Neill
#16. I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole street; then I grew so small that nobody could see me - not even if I cried out.
Jamaica Kincaid
#17. Nashville feels like a big little town to me. It's got lots of culture and lots of interesting things to do and lots of interesting people. At the same time, it feels very small and tight-knit and very close. Everyone feels like they know each other.
Ricky Schroder
#18. To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
#19. LIFE is a big word, isn't it? Let's break it down into small segments. Let's find a level of granularity we can plan around; we could say we'll take it a month at a time, or a week at a time, and treat each of those modules almost as training units.
Chris Cleave
#20. A lot of African wildlife is very big. If you're protecting the big stuff, you're usually protecting the small stuff, too.
Patrick Bergin
#21. Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it's done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
Bear Grylls
#22. I'm about to rupture something, he was informed, as the big, gaily wrapped box she was carrying smacked into the small of his back again. She had an uncanny ability to hit the same spot every time.
Karen Chance
#23. We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#24. As you circumambulate and move closer to Kaaba, you feel like a small stream merging with a big river. As you approach the center, the pressure of the crowd squeezes you so hard that you are given a new life. You are now a part of the people; you are now a man alive and eternal!
Ali Shariati
#25. Every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world, it's doing a couple things: it's empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it's also making the statement that we are all bigger than this; we're a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that.
Lizzo
#26. I will personally never ever get over the communal experience of theatrical cinema. I will never get over the scale of a big screen in relation to your small body, big sounds in a big room with a bunch of other people.
Liza Johnson
#27. Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.
John Gierach
#28. 'it's not that you are too small, my little chick,but rather that the world is too big.
Melanie Benjamin
#29. We're in a situation now where fewer and fewer small films get made. People want these big giant tentpole sort of things, and I don't know, it's getting harder and harder to make a small movie.
Paul Reubens
#30. At least you're taking action. Every big thing starts small.
Ann Aguirre
#31. Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.
Dennis Prager
#32. I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.
Randy Hultgren
#33. I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you ... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things ... he's not a small God; this God is incredible.
Joel Osteen
#34. There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.
Jason Fried
#35. Like small seeds, small deeds can make a big difference.
Seth Adam Smith
#36. But everyone has a chance. Every big guy started off small.
John Gokongwei
#38. In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because they [Oscar voters] loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.
Sigourney Weaver
#39. The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.
T. Harv Eker
#40. I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.
Viggo Mortensen
#41. They'll all get to know me firsthand, the little and the big, the small and the great. They'll get to know me by being kindly forgiven, with the slate of their sins forever wiped clean.
Eugene H. Peterson
#42. I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things ... In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#43. You need to take small steps when you dream big dreams. I am a published author with dyslexia, a professional speaker who was in speech therapy for three years as a child because I had a lisp; and a slow stiff kid from the suburbs who became an All-Pro in the NFL.
Karl Mecklenburg
#44. In order to be big, you have to think big.
If you think small, you're going to be small.
Emeril Lagasse
#45. I find the best things are done for yourself or start as a small project and become a big thing.
Tom Lenk
#46. I used to say ... 'Don't sweat the small stuff
not even the big stuff.' At the end of the day, none of it matters but your own joy, your own spiritual journey that you go on, God, your loved ones, your friends, your animals. These are the things you've got to cherish and love and embrace.
Christina Applegate
#47. When society puts some small fraction of its wealth into asking and answering big questions, it reminds us all of the curiosity we have about our universe. And that leads to all sorts of good places.
Sean Carroll
#48. What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.
Ludwig Von Mises
#49. Small, Local, Old, and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and Abstract.
Rod Dreher
#50. I like the idea of songs sung by those without big voices. You know, small birdsongs that rise above the noise of the city.
Kyo Maclear
#51. I want to live outside of the box, and I definitely don't want to put God in a box, so I want to be able to dream big and kind of let that go of my small-mindedness.
Jodi Benson
#52. There are many people who have big plans but their big plans never come true. The reason is, too many people have big plans but fail to keep their small agreements.
Robert Kiyosaki
#53. Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference.
Jane Goodall
#54. However small you might be, if necessary, struggle against the mountain of evils however big it may be!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#55. Here is the first rule of winning.You have to win small before you can win big.
K.J. Kilton
#56. Time is the very lens through which ye see
small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope
something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality.
C.S. Lewis
#57. In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
Albert Einstein
#58. With the computer and stuff, the difference between a rich guy and a poor guy, to me, is nothing. Because I don't like big houses, I don't drive a car, so you know, I just live in a small apartment and I have my computer, which is really cool.
Norm MacDonald
#59. I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours to cast a ballot knowing what we ought to remember: that it makes a difference. Not always a big difference. Not always an immediate difference. But a difference.
Ellen Goodman
#60. Big companies are often in the process of laying off workers. Small startup companies are the ones that are hiring. The statistics prove that's where job growth is going to occur.
Jerry Moran
#61. If your thoughts are as tall as the height of your ceiling, you can't fly above your room.
Israelmore Ayivor
#62. She was too small and the space covered by maps too big.
John Green
#63. The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like building a great Buddha from a one foot model.
Miyamoto Musashi
#64. The real problem is Mom and the rest of the people in this town don't think big. They're the kind of folks who are too satisfied with the small hand life's dealt to think that a bigger pot might be out there.
Alexandra Bracken
#65. You're not big on people, are you?"
"I wouldn't say that. Just ... when faced with the choice between small talk with strangers and peace and quiet, I'll choose the latter every time. You know?
Kirsten Hubbard
#66. For me, the most absorbing films are those that address big questions and real ideas but embody them in small examples that we can appreciate and comprehend.
Lisa Randall
#67. We may easily be too big for God to use, but never too small.
Dwight L. Moody
#68. Right is what all this is about," Roland said. "But if you look too long at the small rights, Jake - the ones that lie close at hand - it's easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off.
Stephen King
#69. If you plan to excel in big things, you have to develop the habit in the small ones.
LeCrae
#70. In all small things be honest and the big ones will take care of themselves.
Rolf Margenau
#71. My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.
Mario Testino
#72. I believe most people are small dreamers because they dream about great things, however, they think those great things are going to come to them when they wait
Israelmore Ayivor
#73. You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.
Bob Anderson
#75. India is the world's most youthful nation. A nation with such youth power cannot dream small. We cannot commit this crime. We should dream big, we should enable the youth to dream big and we should give them an opportunity to realize their dreams
Narendra Modi
#76. In a very small way, painting addresses the 'Big Questions' to which we'll never find the answers. You do what you have to do even if it seems hopeless.
Sam Messer
#77. The big gamble in 'Focus' - it's a Will Smith movie that dares to be small.
Richard Corliss
#78. We have to challenge ourselves and be innovative so as to change the world. Get to this level of thinking. No small dreams, do big things!
Chris Oyakhilome
#79. You know I'm a firm believer that women come in all shapes and all sizes and you know certain people like certain things. It's all good, whether it's big, small, whatever.
Vinnie Paul
#80. What's so beautiful about breasts is their uniqueness. I don't understand the obsession with fakeness. It's a very odd thing, isn't it, to prefer fake and big to small and unique or just beautiful and real.
Anne Heche
#83. I've got nothing against big-budget values. I mean, I was very proud of 'The Avengers,' the part that I played in it, albeit a small one. It was thrilling to be part of it. But it's so huge that you can never really wrap your mind around it.
Alexis Denisof
#84. The problem is big government. If whoever controls government can impose his way upon you, you have to fight constantly to prevent the control from being harmful. With small, limited government, it doesn't much matter who controls it, because it can't do you much harm.
Harry Browne
#85. What could he have done or said differently? What change would have altered the course of events? In the big picture, nothing. In the small picture, so much.
Margaret Atwood
#86. We fail, not because of big problems, but because of small purposes.
John C. Maxwell
#87. You put the small thief in prison, but the big thief lives in a palace.
Graham Greene
#88. It is hard, but I have faith in him," Dragos said. "He may be small, but he's already proven that he has a big soul. He can handle it. And in the meantime, we'll put bars on his bedroom windows.
Thea Harrison
#90. Small changes can produce big results - but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious.
Peter Senge
#91. Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
Max Lerner
#92. I don't have a drawer full of ideas. I kind of look around and take notes and wonder what could actually be a whole movie. And each time, I think I'm going to do it more commercial this time; I'm going to get a big budget and make it. But I always come up with some small idea.
Nicole Holofcener
#93. If you're dreaming big, #GIRLBOSS, don't be discouraged if you have to start small. It worked for me.
Sophia Amoruso
#94. Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.
Peter Jackson
#95. I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.
Art Linkletter
#96. We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.
Sheryl Sandberg
#97. In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.
Dan Ariely
#98. When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.
Monica Bellucci
#99. Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.
Bob Goff
#100. Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.
Michele Bachmann
