86 Trivial Matters Quotes
Following is our list of trivial matters quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about minor things.
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Famous Trivial Matters Quotes
Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence. — Harvey Penick
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion. — Franklin Pierce
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. — C. Northcote Parkinson
Only the small things in life are important — Joseph Roth
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. — W. H. Auden
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to. — Epictetus
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. — Julius Caesar
Don`t make unimportant things important — Dai Vernon
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. — Doris Lessing
Minor inconveniences are just that, and nothing more. — Isaac Mashman
In war, important events result from trivial causes. — Julius Caesar
Little things affect little minds. — Benjamin Disraeli
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice. — Charles Bukowski
Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing. — Grace Slick
No human thing is of serious importance. — Plato
Short Trivial Matters Quotes
- We often dismiss small changes because they don't seem to matter very much in the moment. — James Clear
- When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? — Virginia Woolf
- Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. — Richard Ben Sapir
- Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles. — Aristotle
- Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Trivial Things Quotes
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things. — Franz Kafka
I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire for beauty is something that's in us, and it's not trivial. — Stefan Sagmeister
Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor everything equally with delight and rejoicing, and welcome with open arms what others dread and avoid. — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. — Karl Marx
When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain — Richey Edwards
Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things. — Joe Hyams
Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another. — Sun Myung Moon
The things that matter most should never be at the mercy of the things that matter least. — Leo Babauta
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. — Joyce Carol Oates
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. — Eugene O'Neill
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
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
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
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
People Writing About Trivial Matters
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Julius Caesar |
78 | 3578 |
 Harvey Penick |
25 | 666 |
 Franklin Pierce |
22 | 738 |
 C. Northcote Parkinson |
38 | 499 |
 Joseph Roth |
10 | 77 |
 W. H. Auden |
431 | 3476 |
More Trivial Matters Quotes
A grand funeral for a dead mouse. — Moroccan Proverbs
We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur — Nicholas D. Kristof
The mice are fighting over the neighbor's yeast. — Moroccan Proverbs
As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you. — Elizabeth Kenny
Tell the truth. Do your best no matter how trivial the task. Choose the difficult right over the easy wrong. Look out for the group before you look out for yourself. Don't whine or make excuses. Judge others by their actions and not by their race or other characteristics. — James F. Amos
Character is developed one positive action at a time. Therefore nothing is actually trivial in our lives. To grow in character development, pay attention to seemingly trivial matters. Someone who grows from each minor life event will eventually reach high levels of character perfection. — Zelig Pliskin
Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters. — Mark Mccormack
Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time. — Ted Koppel
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. — Max Beerbohm
In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality. — Mary McCarthy
One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can’t breathe around it and you realize you don’t need air. Oxygen is trivial. Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset. To touch the one you love. To try again. — Karen Marie Moning
An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Everybody enjoys arguing about the current state of music because it feels as if you are talking about something incredibly important, yet it requires little understanding of the subject matter at hand. It's like world politics meets the pink questions in Trivial Pursuit. Points are made but nothing gets accomplished. — John Mayer
when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority. — Galen Beckett
Trivial things do matter... more people are killed each year by the bite of mosquitoes than are stepped upon by charging elephants. — Unknown
Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom. — W. M. L. Jay
Why should it be difficult for someone to claim their personal reaction, especially in this time where we are only too happy to share our personal reactions about everything, no matter how trivial. Maybe the answer is conditioning. This is pure conjecture, but I think people go to museums to participate. — David Salle
We think in terms of fate even if we don't believe in it. Even something as trivial as missing the bus - we think: Well, it might be good for something. We always have that thought, no matter how critical we try to be. The idea that everything is always total chance - we're not made for that. — Daniel Kehlmann
What people really want, no matter who they are, is someone to listen to them. ... people have a lot on their minds, however trivial, and if you're simply willing to sit there like a sack of dirt and let them yammer, they will tell it to you. — Chip Kidd
All the research shows that the presence of that phone will do two things to the conversation. It will make the conversation go to trivial matters, and it will decrease the amount of empathy that the two people in the conversation feel toward each other. That phone is a signal that either of us can put our attention elsewhere. — Judy Woodruff
I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the inconsequential but near things of this living, was the only kind of creative work which I could accomplish with any sincerity or grace. As a reporter, I was a flop, because I always came back laden not with facts about the case, but with a mind full of the little difficulties and amusements I had encountered in my travels. — E. B. White
Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere. — Ameen Rihani
Writing about fashion forces you to overcome the nagging feeling that fashion doesn't "matter", that it's trivial or fleeting. I just look at it anthropologically, which is different from the way I'd write about art. — Susan Orlean
The form of religion was always a trivial matter to me. ... The pageantry of the Roman Church that first mothered and nurtured me touches me to this day. I love the Protestant prayers of the English Church. And I love the stern and knotty argument, the sermon with heads and sequences, of the New England Congregationalist. For this catholicity Catholics have upbraided me, churchmen rebuked me, and dissenters denied that I had any religion at all. — Mary Catherwood
What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter. — Sarah Monette
No episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode forever, for every event, no matter how trivial, conceals within itself the possibility of sooner or later becoming the cause of other events and thus changing into a story or an adventure. Episodes are like land mines. The majority of them never explode, but the most unremarkable of them may someday turn into a story that will prove fateful to you. — Milan Kundera
Life to me is the greatest of all games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly, and a game in which the rules don't matter much. The rules matter a great deal. The game has to be played fairly or it is no game at all. And even to win the game is not the chief end. The chief end is to win it honorably and splendidly. — Ernest Shackleton
In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small. — Maureen Corrigan
If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Human beings are naturally flawed when it comes to time and memory. The past is forgotten, or it is believed bad things will not recur, and people become bound in their current problems. That which afflicted the grandfathers of their grandfathers is a distant, dim thing, and not as important as present concerns, no matter how trivial. — Kristen Britain
Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them. — Edwidge Danticat
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters. — Idries Shah
Cassandra sat on the floor with Chris and Kat, playing Life. They had tried to play Trivial Pursuit earlier only to learn that a Dark-Hunter and an immortal handmaiden to a goddess had a decidedly unfair advantage over Cassandra and Chris. In Life, the only thing that mattered was luck.’ (Cassandra) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers for the middle-aged or elderly writer whose thoughts should more properly be turned to graver matters, occupying himself with the trivial concerns of imaginary people. — W. Somerset Maugham
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