Top 100 Small Great Things Quotes
#1. Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.
Confucius
#2. A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#3. All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
John Piper
#4. Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
Honore De Balzac
#6. Whatever your financial status in life, or whatever work you do, know that you can make a significant contribution to your family and world by doing small things with great love.
Joyce Vissell
#7. I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my great loves.
Jerry Hall
#8. A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.
Joan D. Chittister
#9. Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
Corrie Ten Boom
#10. If then you desire (aim at) such great things remember that you must not (attempt to) lay hold of them with a small effort;
Epictetus
#11. You may be capable of great things, But life consists of small things.
Ming-Dao Deng
#12. The Lord likes small things best, especially those done with love.
Mother Teresa
#13. be much more friendly to such things that matter most .Things that will propel your vision and ambition to higher heights. Things that will help you enlarge your tentacles. Do not look down on small things however
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#14. The world is divided into three kinds of people: A very small group that makes things happen; a somewhat larger group that watches things happen; and a great multitude that never knows what has happened.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#15. Live every single day doing something relevant; single days sum up to make great ages!
Israelmore Ayivor
#16. Do the small things with a great and a clean heart, even out of your least, and you never did a small thing at all, for the heart defines it all!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#17. Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#18. Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world.
Yeah, I know there are more important things.
But don't forget to remember me.
Carrie Underwood
#19. The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.
Vernon Howard
#20. You know what i like about buttons? They're very small things that hold bigger things together. Awfully important, buttons - little but strong.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#21. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
#22. Small children are great accepters. They don't understand shame, or the need to hide things.
Stephen King
#23. 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
#24. In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." Some
Jack Kornfield
#25. ... the miracle about steel is that you can hammer it so thin it's stretched to its limit, but that doesn't mean it will break.
Jodi Picoult
#26. Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz
#27. I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
#29. We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.
Theodore Roosevelt
#30. ...I told myself that, after all, life was like that for most of us - the small unpleasantness rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.
Barbara Pym
#31. God will always do great things with people who are willing to be faithful in the small things.
Lysa TerKeurst
#32. He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit.
Charles Dickens
#33. You may be living under the illusion that when God ignites great things in your life, He'll announce it with a big bang. He might. It's more likely that He won't. So stop waiting around for the big bang. Pay attention to the subtle clues and the still, small voice. God lives in that place too.
Steven Furtick
#34. I am small, but sometimes I am a small part of great things.
Jo Walton
#35. It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task.
Paul Gauguin
#36. We are gripped by God's will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God's love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.
Albert Schweitzer
#37. Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.
Blaise Pascal
#39. Through nature, through the evolutionary continuum, and ecological relatedness and interdependence of all things, we are as much a part of the wolf as the wolf is a part of us. And as we destroy or demean nature, wolves, or any creature, great or small, we do no less to ourselves.
Michael W. Fox
#40. And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring about great things - 1 Nephi 16:29
Joseph Smith Jr.
#41. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
James Baldwin
#42. The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
Vincent Van Gogh
#43. It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love. - Mother Theresa
Mother Teresa
#44. There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.
George MacDonald
#45. One of the great things about LinkedIn is it isn't the same kind of networking that happens at conventions, where you're wearing a name tag, trying to meet strangers, and awkwardly attempting to make small talk. LinkedIn is networking without the pressure.
Melanie Pinola
#46. None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.
Mother Teresa
#47. Do not be afraid of a small beginning. great things come afterwards. Be courageous. Do not try to lead your brethren, but serve them. The brutal mania for leading has sunk many a great ships in the waters of life. Take care especially of that, i.e. be unselfish even unto death, and work.
Swami Vivekananda
#48. Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.
Jerry L. Lewis
#49. Celebrate every small achievement and gain strength for grandeur things.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#50. Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always been unwilling to isolate their origins from the great ones who have gone before.
Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett
#52. Small it is, but not size that counts,' Craig said without looking at him. 'Great things can come from meek or small. Need to believe.
E.M. Cooper
#53. who achieve great things that the world will never forget, start out by accomplishing small things that the world will never see.
Bob Burg
#54. Death is not the end of things, my sister. It is the beginning of a greater adventure than this small life you cherish can hold. And beyond these shores of death, there are great ships that fly from the golden seas to the skies of pearl.
Douglas Clegg
#55. Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Wilson Mizner
#57. Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
Sallust
#58. Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
#59. Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great
Muriel Spark
#61. If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.
John Piper
#62. Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.
Meher Baba
#64. I'm a great believer in relativity when making movies. Relativity, in my mind, meaning "Light to dark, big to small, good to bad." You visually embrace these things to enhance transitions and instantly paint environments and moods.
Gordon Willis
#65. You become great by going small thing in a great way.
Zig Ziglar
#66. In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"
James Russell Lowell
#67. Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.
Dogen
#68. My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.
John Wesley
#70. Co-operation, like other difficult things, can be learned only by practice: and to be capable of it in great things, a people must be gradually trained to it in small. Now the whole course of advancing civilization is a series of such training.
John Stuart Mill
#71. There is no great and no small
To the Soul that maketh all:
And where it cometh, all things are
And it cometh everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#72. Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.
Arthur Machen
#73. I am so small I can barely be seen.
How can this great love be inside me?
Look at your eyes. They are small,
but they see enormous things.
Rumi
#74. Be not weary in well-doing. ... Out of small things proceedeth that which is great. Behold, the Lord requireth the heart and a willing mind.
Thomas S. Monson
#75. 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
#76. If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way.
Habeeb Akande
#77. In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen, in small things they show themselves as they are
Nicolas Chamfort
#78. God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things.
Pope Francis
#79. For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#80. We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
Sophie Swetchine
#81. The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things ... the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.
Barbara Pym
#82. Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
Karen Mills
#83. We all cannot do everything or solve every issue. "It's impossible", however, if we each simply do our part. Make our own contribution, regardless of how small we may think it is ... together it adds up and great things get accomplished.
Mark W. Boyer
#84. He who is going to be a magician will recognize that life is dependent on the work of the elements in the various planes and spheres. It is to be seen in great and in small things, in the microcosm as well as in the macrocosm, temporarily and eternally, everywhere there are powers in action.
Franz Bardon
#85. If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#86. The small and simple things you choose to do today will be magnified into great and glorious blessings tomorrow.
Ann M. Dibb
#87. 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
#88. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal.
Okakura Kakuzo
#89. Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#90. Maybe you and I can't do great things
We may not change the world in one day
But we still can change some things today ...
In our small way ...
Michael J. Jackson
#92. I was very introverted growing up and I had small circle of friends. Any opportunity I got to rap or articulate things through rhyme or hip hop was great for me.
LeCrae
#93. Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.
Charlotte M. Mason
#94. I held the Host with two fingers and thought: How small Jesus made Himself, in order to show us that He doesn't expect great things of us, but rather little things with great love.
Mother Teresa
#95. The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.
Randall Jarrell
#97. I will be small in small things, great among great.
Pindar
#98. The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.
Eckhart Tolle
#99. Small things done with great love will change the world.
Mother Teresa
#100. Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
Jesse Jackson
