If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way.
- Habeeb Akande
This miracle is in the small things of daily life; we must live in the understanding that at every moment there is a way out of each problem, the way of finding that which is missing, the right clue to the decision which must be taken in order to change our entire future.
- Paulo Coelho
Such Small Things:
For a long time there were only your footprints & laughter in our dreams & even from such small things, we knew we could not wait to love you forever.
- Brian Andreas
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
- Booker T Washington
Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. Gratitude is a many-colored quality, reaching in all directions. It goes out for small things and for large; it is a God-ward going.
- Faith Baldwin
Great things are wrought through simple and small things. Like the small flecks of gold that accumulate over time into a large treasure, our small and simple acts of kindness and service will accumulate into a life filled with love for Heavenly Father, devotion to the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a sense of peace and joy each time we reach out to one another.
- M Russell Ballard
When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
- Muriel Barbery
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
Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come to enrich time...When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
- Muriel Barbery
Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that inspire nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?
- Muriel Barbery
We never worry about the big things, just the small things.
- Travis Barker
Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".
- Dale Carnegie
What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have
- Haruki Murakami
But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.
- Georges Bernanos
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.
- Brandon Sanderson
Sometimes small things can become very large, indeed.
- Rick Riordan
When a man looks at the stars, he grows calm and forgets small things. They answer his questions and show him that his earth is only one of the million worlds. Hold your soul still and look upward often, and you will understand their speech. Never forget the stars.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. Before long the world will be cloven with a war between the telescopists and the microscopists. The first study large things and live in a small world; the second study small things and live in a large world.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Live life fully in the present & enjoy the small things in life that give you joy, for the seemingly small & insignificant moments add up to a greater whole.
- Orchid Ch Ng
I can do small things in a great way.
- James Freeman Clarke
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
Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great
- Muriel Spark
Life isn't only about the big moments whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's about the small things that stretch out to strengthen the most tenuous bound.
- Sarah Dessen
Maybe marriage, like life, is'nt only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things - like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day - that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond.
- Sarah Dessen
Revolutions come about when small things happen to small people.
- Jennifer Donnelly
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way
- Martin Luther King Jr
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
- George Eliot
If you appreciate the small things, you're likely to get the big ones.
- Jonas Eriksson
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.(mother Teresa)
- Robert Fulghum
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
- Eckhart Tolle
The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.
- Eckhart Tolle
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
- Vincent Van Gogh
I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.
- Ellen Hopkins
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
- Edward Everett Hale
Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anythingabout everything I own in the world.
- Knut Hamsun
As the clockwork of the millennia moved a notch in front of their eyes, it had taken their thoughts from small things and reminded them of how vulnerable they were to time.
- Mark Helprin
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
- Napoleon Hill
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
- Bell Hooks
Women were something best bought, he'd found. Pay them, f*ck them, and send them away in the morning. That way avoided tears, recriminations, and feminine disappointment. Oh, and small things like being slapped across the face. Mick rubbed his jaw. But Silence wasn't one of his whores, as Harry had pointed out. Mick couldn't send her away. And he couldn't let her starve herselfhe wouldn't let anyone hurt her, including herself.
- Elizabeth Hoyt
In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
- Arne Jacobsen
They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their world.
- Tove Jansson
I enjoy the small things in life. Like my penis.
- Jarod Kintz
If I spent ten years in prison, I'd probably come to value the small things in life. Things like good food, a comfy bed, and a toothbrush sharpened into a shank.
- Jarod Kintz
We can not do great things on this earth. We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love. - Mother Theresa
- Mother Teresa
Do small things, with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
- Mother Teresa
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
- Mother Teresa
It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.
- Markus Zusak
It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.
- Markus Zusak
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
Small things amuse small minds.
- Doris Lessing
Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.
- Sonya Levien
Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.
- Jerry L Lewis
If you're not content with the small things, then you won't be content with the big things.
- Anthony Liccione
I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My hindsight seemed unbearably clear tonight. I could see every mistake I'd made, every bit of harm I'd done, the small things and the big things.
- Stephenie Meyer
my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.
- Anchee Min
He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.
- Greg Mortenson
You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you seen a few policemen handle a crowd?
- George S Patton
Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.
- Heather O Neill
Well, normally I'm against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big. Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)
- Pete Seeger
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
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
- Marcel Proust
The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things... the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.
- Barbara Pym
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to think of little things that would add to the movie. I like to think the powers that be would let me amuse myself with some small things in order to shut me up while they re-write the screenplay to turn Kvothe into a lesbian, shape-changing unicorn.
- Patrick Rothfuss
And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.
- Arundhati Roy
Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than planning stupid future.
- Vikram Roy
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
- Sallust
So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own life better: acts of love, acts of tea, acts of laughter. Clever people might laugh at such simplicity, but, she asked herself, what was their own solution?
- Alexander Mccall Smith
There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.
- Ronald Steel
Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mothereven after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. So is yours. You are not grieving your son's death because his death was ugly and unfair. You're grieving it because you loved him truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of his death.
- Cheryl Strayed
One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.
- Janet Suzman
Even if you've never experienced the wonderful things in life, only after something has been contaminated and marred will it become a beautiful thing. Pain can be healed with gentle care, darkness can be removed with sunlight. Don't underestimate the small things. Everything is significant.
- Natsuki Takaya
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
There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good.
- Sebastian Vettel
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
- Vernor Vinge
On grass, it can be the small things that decide a match.
- Caroline Wozniacki
- Habeeb Akande
This miracle is in the small things of daily life; we must live in the understanding that at every moment there is a way out of each problem, the way of finding that which is missing, the right clue to the decision which must be taken in order to change our entire future.
- Paulo Coelho
Such Small Things:
For a long time there were only your footprints & laughter in our dreams & even from such small things, we knew we could not wait to love you forever.
- Brian Andreas
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
- Booker T Washington
Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. Gratitude is a many-colored quality, reaching in all directions. It goes out for small things and for large; it is a God-ward going.
- Faith Baldwin
Great things are wrought through simple and small things. Like the small flecks of gold that accumulate over time into a large treasure, our small and simple acts of kindness and service will accumulate into a life filled with love for Heavenly Father, devotion to the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a sense of peace and joy each time we reach out to one another.
- M Russell Ballard
When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
- Muriel Barbery
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
Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come to enrich time...When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
- Muriel Barbery
Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that inspire nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?
- Muriel Barbery
We never worry about the big things, just the small things.
- Travis Barker
Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".
- Dale Carnegie
What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have
- Haruki Murakami
But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.
- Georges Bernanos
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.
- Brandon Sanderson
Sometimes small things can become very large, indeed.
- Rick Riordan
When a man looks at the stars, he grows calm and forgets small things. They answer his questions and show him that his earth is only one of the million worlds. Hold your soul still and look upward often, and you will understand their speech. Never forget the stars.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. Before long the world will be cloven with a war between the telescopists and the microscopists. The first study large things and live in a small world; the second study small things and live in a large world.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Live life fully in the present & enjoy the small things in life that give you joy, for the seemingly small & insignificant moments add up to a greater whole.
- Orchid Ch Ng
I can do small things in a great way.
- James Freeman Clarke
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
Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great
- Muriel Spark
Life isn't only about the big moments whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's about the small things that stretch out to strengthen the most tenuous bound.
- Sarah Dessen
Maybe marriage, like life, is'nt only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things - like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day - that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond.
- Sarah Dessen
Revolutions come about when small things happen to small people.
- Jennifer Donnelly
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way
- Martin Luther King Jr
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
- George Eliot
If you appreciate the small things, you're likely to get the big ones.
- Jonas Eriksson
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.(mother Teresa)
- Robert Fulghum
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
- Eckhart Tolle
The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.
- Eckhart Tolle
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
- Vincent Van Gogh
I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.
- Ellen Hopkins
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
- Edward Everett Hale
Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anythingabout everything I own in the world.
- Knut Hamsun
As the clockwork of the millennia moved a notch in front of their eyes, it had taken their thoughts from small things and reminded them of how vulnerable they were to time.
- Mark Helprin
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
- Napoleon Hill
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
- Bell Hooks
Women were something best bought, he'd found. Pay them, f*ck them, and send them away in the morning. That way avoided tears, recriminations, and feminine disappointment. Oh, and small things like being slapped across the face. Mick rubbed his jaw. But Silence wasn't one of his whores, as Harry had pointed out. Mick couldn't send her away. And he couldn't let her starve herselfhe wouldn't let anyone hurt her, including herself.
- Elizabeth Hoyt
In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
- Arne Jacobsen
They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their world.
- Tove Jansson
I enjoy the small things in life. Like my penis.
- Jarod Kintz
If I spent ten years in prison, I'd probably come to value the small things in life. Things like good food, a comfy bed, and a toothbrush sharpened into a shank.
- Jarod Kintz
We can not do great things on this earth. We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love. - Mother Theresa
- Mother Teresa
Do small things, with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
- Mother Teresa
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
- Mother Teresa
It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.
- Markus Zusak
It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.
- Markus Zusak
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
Small things amuse small minds.
- Doris Lessing
Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.
- Sonya Levien
Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.
- Jerry L Lewis
If you're not content with the small things, then you won't be content with the big things.
- Anthony Liccione
I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My hindsight seemed unbearably clear tonight. I could see every mistake I'd made, every bit of harm I'd done, the small things and the big things.
- Stephenie Meyer
my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.
- Anchee Min
He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.
- Greg Mortenson
You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you seen a few policemen handle a crowd?
- George S Patton
Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.
- Heather O Neill
Well, normally I'm against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big. Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)
- Pete Seeger
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
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
- Marcel Proust
The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things... the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.
- Barbara Pym
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to think of little things that would add to the movie. I like to think the powers that be would let me amuse myself with some small things in order to shut me up while they re-write the screenplay to turn Kvothe into a lesbian, shape-changing unicorn.
- Patrick Rothfuss
And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.
- Arundhati Roy
Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than planning stupid future.
- Vikram Roy
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
- Sallust
So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own life better: acts of love, acts of tea, acts of laughter. Clever people might laugh at such simplicity, but, she asked herself, what was their own solution?
- Alexander Mccall Smith
There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.
- Ronald Steel
Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mothereven after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. So is yours. You are not grieving your son's death because his death was ugly and unfair. You're grieving it because you loved him truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of his death.
- Cheryl Strayed
One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.
- Janet Suzman
Even if you've never experienced the wonderful things in life, only after something has been contaminated and marred will it become a beautiful thing. Pain can be healed with gentle care, darkness can be removed with sunlight. Don't underestimate the small things. Everything is significant.
- Natsuki Takaya
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
There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good.
- Sebastian Vettel
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
- Vernor Vinge
On grass, it can be the small things that decide a match.
- Caroline Wozniacki
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