Top 46 Small Things Are Great Quotes
#1. 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
#3. There are people [in Uganda] who hate Idi Amin, a small amount. And then there are the people who really admire him, like a hero. And then there's a large group who say, 'We know that all these murders and atrocities occurred, but he did all these great things.'
Forest Whitaker
#4. Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure the comfort.
Humphy Davy
#5. There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.
Mother Teresa
#6. 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
#7. There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
Andre Gide
#8. And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.
Anaxagoras
#9. The world promises things that are temporal and small, and it is served with great eagerness. I (Christ) promise things that are great and eternal, and the hearts of mortals are slow to stir.
Thomas A Kempis
#10. The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.
Francois Fenelon
#11. Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.
Laozi
#12. Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#13. God will always do great things with people who are willing to be faithful in the small things.
Lysa TerKeurst
#14. Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao-Tzu
#15. Too many of you are doing great stuff in small ponds, it's time for a stir-up, break limits, break boundaries, breakthrough. Go, make it happen!
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#16. All difficult things in the world are sure to arise from a previous state in which they were easy, and all great things from one in which they were small.
Lao-Tzu
#17. Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
Shane Claiborne
#18. Great things tend to be undoable things. Whereas small things, lovingly done, are always within our reach.
David Duncan
#19. If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.
Stephen Covey
#20. That is the difference between great men and small, we great are willing to do the hard things, the uncomfortable things to ensure we succeed.
S.C. Barrus
#21. Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
J.C. Ryle
#22. Maybe you have thought that doing ... little kindnesses doesn't make much difference, but as Alma said, "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass."
Joe J. Christensen
#23. It is a fact of life that when you are small, people expect little things from you. But when you've done a great thing, people are amazed.
Ymatruz
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#30. 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
#31. The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.
Eckhart Tolle
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen, in small things they show themselves as they are
Nicolas Chamfort
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Small children are great accepters. They don't understand shame, or the need to hide things.
Stephen King
#38. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.
George MacDonald
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
