160 Large Quotes

Following is our list of large quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about little and large.

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Famous Large Quotes

Be larger than your task. — Orison Swett Marden

Headlines twice the size of the events. — John Galsworthy

Big requires growth, and by the time you arrive, you’re big too! — Gary Keller

Our dreams make us large. - Jack Kirby

Our dreams make us large. — Jack Kirby

How big can we get before we get bad? — Jay Chiat

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. - Robert Mapplethorpe

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. — Robert Mapplethorpe

Big results require big ambitions. - Heraclitus

Big results require big ambitions. — Heraclitus

Big results require big ambitions. — James Champy

Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit for a king. — Giambattista Bodoni

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with. — John Singer Sargent

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it. - Zora Neale Hurston

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it. — Zora Neale Hurston

Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter. — Zhuangzi

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big. — Donald Trump

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. — Theodore Roosevelt

Short Large Quotes

  • Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. — George Carlin
  • In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart. — Sigmund Freud
  • The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. — Alexander Hamilton
  • We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky. — Leonard Cohen
  • Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. — George Burns
  • People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species. — Ibn Khaldun
  • Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. — William Feather
  • Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large. — Mas Oyama
  • Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. — Robert Baden-Powell
  • Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation. — Jack Nicklaus

Large Image Quotes

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. - Arthur Schopenhauer quote

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Large quote It is surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings towar
It is surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feeling toward themselves, and if you are not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. - Howard Zinn quote

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. — Howard Zinn

The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols. - Joseph Franklin Rutherford quote

The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him. - Emo Philips quote

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him. — Emo Philips

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. - Florence Nightingale quote

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. — Florence Nightingale

Large quote Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Make It Large Quotes

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline. — James C. Collins

I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it. — A.J. Ayer

Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes the rich richer, enlarges the deficit and increases income and wealth inequality. We need economic policies which benefit working families, not the billionaire class. — Bernie Sanders

Large quote Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of gr
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of gratitude.

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid. — Rita Rudner

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces. — Robert James Waller

We can do anything. It’s not because our hearts are large, they’re not, it’s what we struggle with. The attempt to say Come over. Bring your friends. It’s a potluck, I’m making pork chops, I’m making those long noodles you love so much. — Richard Siken

Large quote Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achie
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the works of application that one must study them; one judges their utility there and appraises the manner of making use of them. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Hey, look — Harry’s got a Weasley sweater, too!” Fred and George were wearing blue sweaters, one with a large yellow F on it, the other a G. “Harry’s is better than ours, though,” said Fred, holding up Harry’s sweater. “She obviously makes more of an effort if you’re not family. — J. K. Rowling

Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough, in modern times at least, to make a revolution. The cooperation of a majority, and a large majority too, is needed. — Jean Jaures

A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one. — Paul Halmos

Little And Large Quotes

My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses. — Audrey Hepburn

Twitter’s product is the global town square. Elon is focused on protecting free speech, transparency, and democracy. Without Starlink, we would have had little sense of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, the transparency of which has had magical powers on people at large. — Cathie Wood

The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential. — James Surowiecki

Large quote As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.
As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

Classic Recipe for Roast Beef: 1 large Roast of beef 1 small Roast of beef Take the two roasts and put them in the oven. When the little one burns, the big one is done. — Gracie Allen

I see fat kids on the street all the time and I give them free radiohead t-shirts with bullseyes on them. Later when I see them wearing the t-shirts I shoot at them with bb guns while riding a very large dog and singing kicking squealing gucci little piggy over and over — Thom Yorke

Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day. — Theodore Levitt

Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back. — Voltaire

I can't do Los Angeles. I've always been the anti-Barbie. I don't want to be in a place where almost every woman walks around with puffy lips, little noses and breasts large enough to nourish a small country. — Vera Farmiga

A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it. — Andrew Solomon

[I attach] little importance to physical size. I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. The stars may be large, but they cannot think or love; and these are qualities which impress me far more than size does. — Frank P. Ramsey

Large Numbers Quotes

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. — Bertrand Russell

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. — Voltaire

The number of those who do selfless public service and those who serve without expecting any return, should increase. Their sterling qualities should show the way to the people at large. Their life would be a model to show how man should conduct himself in public life. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property. — Harold Laski

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens. — Cameron Sinclair

The population is made up of four types of people: A small number hunt witches. A large number go along with the hunt. A larger number are silent. A tiny number oppose it. The final group – as if by magic – become witches. — Bret Weinstein

Because deep learning is so empirical, success in it is to a large extent proportional to raw experimental throughput - the ability to babysit a large number of experiments at once, staring at plots and tweaking/re-launching what works. This is necessary, but not sufficient. — Andrej Karpathy

Both SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 vaccines cause blood clots. Sadly because the vaccines do not work, most people have been vaccinated and have COVID-19 anyway, so their risk of blood clots is even further elevated. mRNA causing clots in large numbers. — Peter A. McCullough

We are always looking for a small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London. — Charles Clarke

Something has gone badly wrong with our culture. We've created a culture where really large numbers of the people around us can't bear to be present in their daily lives. They need to medicate themselves to get through their day. — Johann Hari

Large Things Quotes

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way. — Aaron Allston

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The bottom line is there is large uncertainty because nobody has a very good handle on aerodynamics at those altitudes and at those speeds. Given that large degree of uncertainty, life could be normal during entry or some bad things could happen. — Wayne Hale

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things. — Hannah More

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition. — Ralph Adams Cram

There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done. — John Ruskin

I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. — Dorothy Parker

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact. — Julie Burchill

But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal. — Frank Bidart

Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. — Solon

Living Large Quotes

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live. — Jane Addams

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. — Susan Sontag

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large. — Joan D. Vinge

The universe is only as large as our perception of it. When we cultivate our awareness, we are expanding the universe. This expands the scope, not just of the material at our disposal to create from, but of the life we get to live. — Rick Rubin

A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All of us occupied the same space, the men behind the desk no less than those about to be questioned. What distinguished each of us was only our inner attitude. — Etty Hillesum

It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits. — Martha Plimpton

I wish we lived in a world where how you looked or what you wore wasn't an issue for men or women, and it's by and large not an issue for men, so I wish it wasn't an issue for women, but it is. — Nicola Sturgeon

No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce. — Thomas Sowell

Articulating the feelings that your people are afraid to speak is a large part of what leaders, including ship captains, do for a living. — Michael Abrashoff

I think every athlete has their window of opportunity, and you just have to jump on it. You never know when it can end. So I'm just trying to live large while I have the opportunity. — Hope Solo

Large Groups Quotes

When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country. — Molly Ivins

Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race. — Michelle Alexander

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic. — Dave Barry

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale. — Chiang Kai-shek

Human tendency to conform, especially when in large groups, is terrifying. Propaganda machines leverage this throughout human history. The way out is to think freely, detached from the divisive narratives of the day that masquerade as universal truths. This often feels lonely. — Lex Fridman

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. — Coretta Scott King

I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music. — Kristin Kreuk

I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm. — Wanda Sykes

The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts. — Rick Ross

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. — Ralph Richardson

Large Scale Quotes

Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day. — Francisco Franco

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery. — Eugene V. Debs

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. — Jim Morrison

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. — Thomas Jefferson

It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle. — Georgy Zhukov

The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large scale immigration from the Orient would change the fundamental composition of the Canadian population. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally. — Wendell Berry

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. — Francis Ford Coppola

Everything that can be found in the universe on a large scale is reflected in a human being on a small scale. — Franz Bardon

If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy. — Miyamoto Musashi

Large Family Quotes

I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands. — Sayings

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married. — Lewis Grizzard

The most important Christian Education institution is not the pulpit or the school, important as those institutions are; but it is the Christian family. And that institution has to a very large extent ceased to do its work. — John Gresham Machen

The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them. — Taylor Dane

My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time. — Karen Brown

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. — Nancy Mitford

My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education. — Ronnie James Dio

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. — Theodore Isaac Rubin

The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies. — Chinua Achebe

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war. — Kofi Annan

Large Cities Quotes

American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it. — Joseph McCarthy

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. - Herbert V. Prochnow

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. — Herbert V. Prochnow

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. — Herbert Prochnow

When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town. — Robert Bridges

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another. — Seth Low

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. — Cyril Connolly

Not one piece of evidence has ever been found to support the Book of Mormon-not a trace of the large cities it names, no ruins, no coins, no letters or documents or monuments, nothing in writing. Not even one of the rivers or mountains or any of the topography it mentions has ever been identified. — Dave Hunt

Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. — Aldous Huxley

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. — Thomas Jefferson

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More Large Quotes

What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major. — Nas

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think. — Noam Chomsky

A large percentage of those living in developed societies are told what brand of soda they should drink, what cigarettes they should smoke, what clothes and shoes they should wear, what they should eat and what brand of food they should buy. Their political ideas are supplied in the same way. Every year a trillion dollars is spent on advertising. — Fidel Castro

There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training—belonging to man's learned behavior. — John B. Watson

See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future. — Joel Osteen

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. — John Locke

At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments. — Ibn Khaldun

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry. — Hosea Ballou

Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. — Rainer Maria Rilke

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely. — Anselm of Canterbury

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to. — Oprah Winfrey

I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill. — Joseph O'Connor

I yearn for that livin' large, but mama I ain't done yet/Sit back and watch your son rise, kick back and know your son set — J. Cole

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large. — William Wilberforce

I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. . . the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy. — Yuri Gagarin

The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results. — Michael Leboeuf

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world. — Etty Hillesum

Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves. — Gordon B. Hinckley

I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here. — Mitch Hedberg

Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles. — Abdu'l-Bahá

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