153 Small Things Quotes

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Famous Small Things Quotes

Only the small things in life are important — Joseph Roth

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. — John Wooden

Little things affect little minds. — Benjamin Disraeli

Sometimes the little things in life mean the most. — Ellen Hopkins

Many small things can add up to a big one. —

The small things in life often show a big heart. — Changpeng Zhao

Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing. — Mother Teresa

A small act is worth a million thoughts. - Ai Weiwei

A small act is worth a million thoughts. — Ai Weiwei

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things. — Emily Dickinson

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things. — Stephen Covey

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better. — Vincent Van Gogh

It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class. — J. Willard Marriott

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Short Small Things Quotes

  • Every little thing you do leads up to a bigger thing. — Georges St-Pierre
  • We often dismiss small changes because they don't seem to matter very much in the moment. — James Clear
  • Little things do make a difference. Can you imagine a world without butterflies? — Katrina Mayer
  • Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count. — Stella McCartney
  • Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world. — Eduardo Galeano
  • Don’t ignore the small things — the kite flies because of its tail. — American Proverbs
  • Faithfulness in little things is a big thing. — Saint John Chrysostom
  • Great acts are made up of small deeds. — Lao Tzu
  • Great acts are made up of small deeds. — Lao Tzu
  • Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. — Unknown

Small Things Image Quotes

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. - Napoleon Hill quote

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. — Napoleon Hill

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. - Swedish Proverbs quote

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. — Swedish Proverbs

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. - G. K. Chesterton quote

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. — G. K. Chesterton

Small things quote Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
From small beginnings come great things. - Proverbs quote

From small beginnings come great things. — Proverbs

Small things quote If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way

Small Things Don't Matter Quotes

No matter what's happening, choose to be happy. Don't focus on what's wrong. Find something positive in your life. Thank God for the small things. — Joel Osteen

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

With small dogs people don't reinforce the same behavior that they do on a larger dog. If you are a driver no matter what size car you have it doesn't matter. Same thing goes for any gender. All the rules are the same. — Cesar Millan

Small things quote Be grateful for small things, big things, and everything in between. Count your blessings, not your
Be grateful for small things, big things, and everything in between. Count your blessings, not your problems.

Like for Putin it's really about hosting this two-week [Olympic] party and showing it off to the world.It's a pride thing. It's a big PR exercise for him and for Russia. So, at that point $50 billion and some environmental damage and a small city's future don't really matter. — Gary Hustwit

Small Things Do Matter Quotes

No matter if you wear a small amount of makeup, no makeup, or heavy makeup, as long as you feel beautiful internally and you're doing beautiful things for other people, and not just focusing on the exterior to make yourself happy, I think you should do what works for you. You should rock on. — Janelle Monae

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty. — James A. Garfield

No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged. — Mahatma Gandhi

Small things quote Celebrate the small things and our lives become bigger than ever.
Celebrate the small things and our lives become bigger than ever.

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things. — Channing Pollock

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting. — Jack Bowman

How you do anything is how you do everything. Your "character" or "nature" just refers to how you handle all the day-to-day things in life, no matter how small. — Derek Sivers

Small things quote Great things are done by a series of small things, brought together.
Great things are done by a series of small things, brought together.

Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will observe it; nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter. — Marcus Aurelius

Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe — Bob Goff

Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals. — Ashley Montagu

Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Little Things Do Matter Quotes

The bottom line is about the technique. The little things. Fine-tuning what we have to do. No matter who is out there, maybe theyre not going to be as good, quote-unquote, as the starters may be, but the bottom line for us is to make sure were doing the right things. — Kurt Warner

The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention. — Erich Fromm

The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever. — Haruki Murakami

Small things quote Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions. — Donald Cargill

A thesis has to be presentable... but don't attach too much importance to it. If you do succeed in the sciences, you will do later on better things and then it will be of little moment. If you don't succeed in the sciences, it doesn't matter at all. — Paul Ehrenfest

When you grow up", I said, "do you ever stop feeling little and weak?" "No," she says. "There's always a little frail and tiny thing inside, no matter how grown-up you are. — David Almond

Small things quote Never doubt a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the o
Never doubt a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

It doesn't matter what you do, if you love what you do, then you don't sweat the little things. You just don't pay attention to them. Then when the big things come along, they're never as big as what they seem to somebody who doesn't have a passion for it and doesn't really love it. — Kyle Petty

We do all kinds of things to remain beautiful. Yet, we spend surprisingly little time taking care of what matters most - the way our mind functions. — Matthieu Ricard

Would do well to slow down a little... focus on the significant... and truly see the things that matter most. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Little Things Matter Quotes

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. — Colin Powell

No matter how much good things are going on around you, you still have them little negative things that just wanna come out in front. But you bottle them in because you have so many other great things, but they still there. — Kendrick Lamar

It is the best thing to have great games, and the tiredness matters little. — Antoine Griezmann

Small things quote Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

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

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. — Charles R. Swindoll

When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.' — Sarah Louise Delany

Small things quote Big things often have Small Beginnings
Big things often have Small Beginnings

The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it? — Sandra Cisneros

It does not matter how awesome your product is or your presentation or your post. Your awesome thing matters ONLY to the extent that it serves the user's ability to be a little more awesome. — Kathy Sierra

Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels so abundantly provided with good sense that he feels no desire for more than he already possesses. — Rene Descartes

We tend to harp on little things, or worry about something, when, really, it's just not that important. If you have a roof over your head, and you're healthy, and your family is healthy, that's all that matters. Don't let the little things get you down. — Asher Roth

Small Things In Life Quotes

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways. — Edith Wharton

In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what's expected of you or required of you. — Cory Booker

The God who created, names, and numbers the stars in the heavens also numbers the hairs of my head..He pays attention to very big things and to very small ones. What matters to me matters to Him, and that changes my life. — Elisabeth Elliot

Small things quote What is one small thing you do today to move you a step closer to your dreams.
What is one small thing you do today to move you a step closer to your dreams.

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 comfort. — Sir Humphrey Davy

We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in. — Atul Gawande

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story. — Pam Houston

Small things quote All great things start as one small thing.
All great things start as one small thing.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else — Joe Abercrombie

I find that the more willing I am to be grateful for the small things in life, the bigger stuff just seems to show up from unexpected sources, and I am constantly looking forward to each day with all the surprises that keep coming my way! — Louise Hay

The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat. — Lewis Francis Herreshoff

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

Small Details Quotes

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression. — Cary Grant

The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline--it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins. — Joni Eareckson Tada

Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events. — Jim Jarmusch

When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them. — Valentino Garavani

In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. You notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding. — Xavi

I find significance in all kinds of small details when I run; I'm hyper aware of my surroundings, the sensations in my body, and the thoughts running through my mind. Everything is clearer, heightened. I might be more addicted to this clarity than I am to running itself. — Kristin Armstrong

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention. — Lou Holtz

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life. — John Lubbock

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed. — Ernest Hemingway

Tiny Things Quotes

What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things. — Haruki Murakami

The great thing about the movies ... is-you're giving people little ... tiny pieces of time ... that they never forget. — James Stewart

I move forward in my life every day, even if it's only a tiny step, because I know that great things are accomplished with tiny moves, but nothing is accomplished by standing still — Zig Ziglar

Although pepper is tiny, its taste is intense. — Hungarian Proverbs

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school. — Brian Eno

Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. — John Keats

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it. — Tom Hanks

Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity? — Blaise Pascal

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got! — Yann Martel

Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smallest of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass. — Alexandra David-Neel

Little Things In Life Quotes

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for — Robert Frost

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life. — Emo Philips

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done. — Vince Lombardi

We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it. — Andy Puddicombe

The biggest thing that I've learned is to run the marathon, not the sprint. By that I mean, don't let the little problems that you face in the hour in daily life cast a shadow over the larger joys that you have, over the course of the years. — Jon Foreman

Life can be wonderful. Do your best not to miss it!” Enjoy what it is before it isn't anymore. Dare to slip on a pair of bunny slippers once in a while! Surprise yourself! Enjoy the little things because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things! — Barbara Johnson

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life. — Georges St-Pierre

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things. — Ann Brashares

Take time to smell the roses. Appreciating the little things in life really can make all the difference. — Andy Puddicombe

Minor Things Quotes

We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally. — Dalai Lama

Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready. — Laurel Clark

Knowing is not enough, You must apply — Bruce Lee

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things. — Jim Rohn

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech. — Aldo Leopold

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. — William Osler

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time. — Margot Fonteyn

Life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. — Tony Robbins

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives. — William Throsby Bridges

The mills of God grind slowly. — Lord Acton

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More Small Things Quotes

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake. — Voltaire

I don't do great things. I do small things with great love. — Mother Teresa

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one. — Mark Twain

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Focus on big things.Mother Teresa

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. — Jim Rohn

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many. — William Bradford

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. — Margaret Mead

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together. — Marilyn Monroe

We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously. — Grace Lee Boggs

There is nothing small about our God, and when we understand God we will find out that there ought not to be anything small about us. We must have an enlargement of our conception of God, then we will know that we have come to a place where all things are possible, for our God is an omnipotent God for impossible positions. — Smith Wigglesworth

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. — George S. Patton

The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone. — Robertson Davies

The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love. — Corrie Ten Boom

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding. — Andrew Sean Greer

The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world. — Ann Voskamp

Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing. — Maynard James Keenan

If you plan to excel in big things, you have to develop the habit in the small ones. — LeCrae

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. — Alvin Toffler

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour. — Dieter Rams

We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self. — Rose Philippine Duchesne

You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers. — Mother Teresa

If each person in this world will simply take a small piece of this huge thing, this amazing quilt, and work it regardless of the color of the yarn, we will have harmony on this planet. — Cicely Tyson

The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue. — Bonaventure

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day. — Ray Lewis

All great things have small beginnings. — Peter Senge

Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Summoning up the courage to take action is always the same regardless of how seemingly big or small the challenge. What may look like a small act of courage is courage nonetheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward. — Nichiren

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. — Swedish Proverbs

You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it. — Colin Quinn

One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements. — Dennis Hastert

It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things. — Andy Partridge

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free. — Ray Manzarek

When there is a respect for small things, there will be an even greater respect towards the bigger things. When there is no respect for small things, then neither will there be for the bigger ones. This is how the Fathers maintained Tradition. — Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

But hey, man, if I summited K2 in winter, without oxygen, frost-nipped fingers are a small price to pay. It was worth it. Think about it, things could have been a lot worse. — Nirmal Purja

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. — Pam Brown

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it. — Natalie Imbruglia

I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world — Sukarno

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