Top 100 Smallest Quotes
#1. The cry of distress lays hold of our Lord's omnipotence. It is as easy for God to supply thy greatest as thy smallest wants, even as it was within His power to form a system or an atom, to create a blazing sun as to kindle the fire-fly's lamp.
Thomas Guthrie
#2. The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#3. He cupped my face between his hands, and when our lips touched, his skin felt soft and warm. It was the smallest,
gentlest, most earth-shattering kiss in the long and glorious history of kisses, and it took my breath away.
Antony John
#4. You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
Mignon McLaughlin
#5. I never allow myself to be influenced in the smallest degree either by atmospheric disturbances or by the arbitrary divisions of what is known as Time.
Marcel Proust
#6. Smallest kindness is our greatness.
Every moment could be great if we show our kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#7. I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#8. Oftentimes it's the smallest, seemingly inconsequential acts that make the biggest differences in our lives.
Richard Paul Evans
#9. Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam, poverty into wealth, the smallest into the greatest, the most common to the most noble, earth into paradise.
Kaspar Hauser
#10. Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.
John Bright
#11. Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in our hearts.
A.A. Milne
#12. The longest journeys start with the smallest steps.
Cherie Blair
#13. I'm constantly trying to make myself better, to learn more. I didn't finish college, so I feel like I'm always having to prove myself. I don't want to feel like the smallest person in the room.
Nina Dobrev
#14. The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.
Charles Simmons
#15. Between his skin and hers, there was the smallest of spaces, barely enough for air, for this slick of sweat now chilling. Even still, a third person, their marriage, had slid in.
Lauren Groff
#16. Sometimes the smallest victories in life are more rewarding than the greatest milestones.
Katie Kacvinsky
#17. You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.
Jack Gantos
#18. 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
#19. Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large.
Anaxagoras
#20. There is not enough darkness in the world to put out even the smallest lamp
Srini Chandra
#21. We were vicious and violent but elegant and discreet. There was a dance to all of this, one that kept all things flowing in the right direction, a circle that ensured the smartest and brightest would stay on top, not the man with the most guns and the smallest dick.
Karina Halle
#22. Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.
Hannah More
#23. You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
George Eliot
#24. Pope John Paul II, who has a mystique without a politique. He has no armies, no publicity directors, no propaganda machine and comes from the smallest state in all the world.
Fulton J. Sheen
#25. If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives ...
Donna VanLiere
#26. This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.
Canning Fok
#27. Just opening quietly for moments everyday can create a path by which life can reach us, the way rain carves a little stream in the earth by which the smallest flowers are watered.
Mark Nepo
#28. Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience, the everyday moments, or to value only the grandest, most stirring ones.
Chris Hadfield
#29. Remember in any case, that not only the Adept, but anyone with the smallest capacity for Adeptship, is fundamentally an Artist; he will certainly not possess any of those bourgeois "virtues" which are just so many reactions to Blue Funk.
Aleister Crowley
#30. To change the world, a country, an organization, a community, a relationship, begin with the smallest seed of change: begin with yourself. That is what this book is all about.
Gloria Burgess
#31. Most elegantly finished in all parts, [the hummingbird] is a miniature work of our Great Parent, who seems to have formed it the smallest, and at the same time the most beautiful of the winged species.
J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
#32. MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.
Winston S. Churchill
#33. No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#34. Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.
Edward R. Tufte
#35. Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.
Marlene Van Niekerk
#36. If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.
Jerzy Kosinski
#37. The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
William Hazlitt
#38. In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.
Michel De Montaigne
#39. It is queer, but my love and longing for the world are always deepened by my absence from it; it's wondrous, don't you think, that a person can swing from despair to gleeful hunger, and that even during these dark days there is happiness to be found in the smallest things?
Kate Morton
#40. There is something in all of us that has always been dead," I said. "If only because we know that eventually we will die. All of us except the smallest children.
Gene Wolfe
#41. Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.
Neil Kinnock
#42. As communist atheists allowed no place for Jesus in their hearts, I decided I'd leave not the smallest place for satan in mine.
Richard Wurmbrand
#43. The family is the simplest and smallest unit of society and the real fountain of culture. If this fountain remains pure, man's culture has promise. But if it becomes polluted, all the rest will turn to dust and ashes, since the home is the foundation of the entire social structure.
Henry R. Van Til
#44. I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. - singer Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Focusing on the tiniest details, finding magic in even the smallest inspirations, embracing the briefest moments-that's where passion is.
Linda Kaplan Thaler
#45. [In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot the amplitudes logarithmically.
Charles Francis Richter
#46. A fog of despair so pervaded the ghetto that the smallest gesture of rebellion could seem like a bold, piercing light. Bad, said with a fond expression, was almost always a compliment.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
#47. If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
George Bernard Shaw
#48. A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.
William Shatner
#49. The Bible says no one has ever looked upon God and lived. God is perfectly good, and can't be in the presence of evil, even the smallest evil. Without his Son's sacrifice as a covering, we can't be in the presence of God without being destroyed, because his anger would be kindled against us.
John Michael Hileman
#50. We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.
John Calvin
#51. It was the guys who'd been bullied and roughed up for being the smallest in the class. Those guys had learned early how to fight tooth-and-nail, how to survive through any means necessary. And Kade should know. He'd been one of them. They grew up to be more dangerous than any of the bullies.
Tiffany Snow
#52. Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#53. Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#54. My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.
Dick Dale
#55. What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.
Manolo Blahnik
#56. Sense and deal with problems in their smallest state, before they grow bigger and become fatal.
Pearl Zhu
#57. Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be "strangers in a strange land," who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.
Salvador Minuchin
#58. The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression ... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#60. We all do things we're not particularly proud of, because in the short term they make us feel the smallest bit better. Don't we?
Maggie Pouncey
#61. You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.
Anthony Bourdain
#62. Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
Marcus Aurelius
#63. Every evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from the vastness itself.
Cheryl Strayed
#64. I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing ... Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve.
Mary McLeod Bethune
#65. Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read.
Benjamin Franklin
#66. The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, / And if ever there was it led forward life ... / All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Kevin Hearne
#68. It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.
Joshua Bloch
#69. I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals. (10)
Jane Austen
#72. Twolegs are mad. Even the smallest kit knows that.
Erin Hunter
#73. If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.
Stefan Molyneux
#74. Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.
Sara Paretsky
#75. I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)
Wendell Berry
#76. The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the field, like pinballs caught in a tight corner.
Cole Alpaugh
#77. Depression is like a heaviness that you can't ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it's in your bones and your blood.
Jasmine Warga
#78. Even the smallest of our actions can have great consequences.
Robin Sacredfire
#79. Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen.
James A. Garfield
#80. Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
Florence Nightingale
#81. Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.
William Zinsser
#82. All my biggest failures began with the smallest compromises.
Jori Sams
#83. I was called such names as a kid. Being the smallest boy in the class with a name like Caroll. I remember going home and saying to my mom, 'What were you thinking?'
Caroll Spinney
#84. And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability.
Julian Barnes
#85. You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.
Charles Kingsley
#86. Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.
Libba Bray
#87. Dividing the goal into pieces must be brought down to the smallest measurable element, a day, to know exactly what to do every day
Sunday Adelaja
#88. The smallest of disciplines, practiced every day, start an incredible process that can change our lives forever.
Jim Rohn
#89. When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#90. Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.
Plato
#91. He only shows the world the smallest safest parts of himself. But inside, underneath, is a wealth of hidden discoveries. I want to know them all.
A. Zavarelli
#92. Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.
Kate Middleton
#93. I took lessons since I was little; I used to pay for my own singing lessons and take myself. Just take the bus when I was a kid and go. But I'd been writing music for years, since the smallest age.
Rebecca Ferguson
#95. The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?
Oprah Winfrey
#96. We nurture our sense of connection with the larger whole, noticing that the whole is only as healthy as its smallest part.
Sharon Salzberg
#97. The conversation of the gods! - I didn't resent or feel aggrieved because I couldn't understand it. I was the smallest of the planets, and if I carried messages between them and I couldn't always understand, that was in order too: they were something in a foreign language - star-talk.
L.P. Hartley
#98. I spent my entire life working with the smallest budget I could get. Just working with old, junky, donated equipment. The only things I bought myself were the trumpet and the $9 ukulele.
Zach Condon
#99. Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.
Thomas Carlyle
#100. Action shouldn't just be seeing all those crashes. You can blow up a cathedral; next time you blow up the Great Wall of China, and then what? But when you're in love with your characters, the smallest action becomes an important action.
Michelle Yeoh
