quotes about Little Things
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A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook -
Sometimes it's the little things that count most.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
I like to zoom out of the situation so I can see it all and don't get caught up in the little things down there.
-- Ali BanisadrSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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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 -
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Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great.
-- Baldassare Castiglione -
I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.
-- Barbara Ann KipferSource : Barbara Ann Kipfer (1989). “14,000 Things to Be Happy About: The Happy Book”, Workman Publishing
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When little things are so important, it's because there aren't any big ones.
-- Benedict Freedman -
It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
-- Bess Streeter AldrichSource : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1988). “A White Bird Flying”, p.139, U of Nebraska Press
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I've never wanted to kill myself over anything major. It's always the little things that do me in.
-- Bill Burr -
I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.
-- Bill James -
... our little things are all big to God's love; our big things are all small to His power.
-- Billy Graham -
A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.
-- Blaise Pascal -
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Everyone expects us to have a sense of urgency for life's big things. Life measures us by how we engage ourselves in the little things.
-- Bob Proctor -
Man, if I can get a burp out of that little thing I feel such a sense of accomplishment.
-- Brad Pitt -
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True greatness consists in being great in little things.
-- Charles SimmonsSource : Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.315
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It is so much better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one.
-- Charles Webster HawthorneSource : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press
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It's the little things that count, hundreds of them.
-- Cliff Shaw -
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
-- Daisy Ashford -
How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
-- Dwight L. Moody -
The great doing of little things, makes the great life.
-- Eugenia Price -
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There are no little things. Little things are the hinges of the universe.
-- Fanny Fern -
Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.
-- Frederick William Faber -
To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.
-- Hans ArpSource : "Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs". Book by Hans Arp, Gallimard, Paris, p. 571 (the book gathers almost all Arp's writings in prose and some important poetry), 1966.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.
-- Hesiod -
A person who will not take care of the little things will not take care of the big things, for big things are but an accumulation of little things.
-- Jack Hyles -
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You cannot improve one thing by 1000% but you can improve 1000 little things by 1%.
-- Jan Carlzon -
But the little things are what make up life
-- Jenny HanSource : Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.294, Simon and Schuster
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If you worry about every little thing you're going to have one thoroughly miserable life.
-- Joan Bauer -
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We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Let's take care of the little things while they're still little.
-- John G. MillerSource : John G. Miller (2004). “QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life”, p.55, Penguin
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Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
I know well that happiness is in little things.
-- John Ruskin -
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There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
-- Larry Hagman -
Once torched by truth...a little thing like faith is easy.
-- Leif Enger -
It's a hard world for little things,
-- Lillian GishSource : "Fictional character: Rachel Cooper". Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, www.imdb.com. 1955.
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It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery -
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a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.
-- Lydia M. Child -
Little things can make such a big difference during recording.
-- Matt Cameron -
You build your 'COURAGE MUSCLE' daily, by being courageous in little things. Just do right..
-- Maya Angelou -
Let me tell you something big: Give importance to little things!
-- Mehmet Murat Ildan -
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The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.
-- Morrie Schwartz -
If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.
-- Mother Teresa -
The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I'm not extreme about what I eat.
-- Naomi Campbell -
Little things are great to little men.
-- Oliver GoldsmithSource : "The traveller. Or, a prospect of society". Poem by Oliver Goldsmith, 1764.
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Success is the exponential effect of little things done consistently over time.
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We all have our own little thing, I think.
-- Patricia ArquetteSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Realize that little things lead to bigger things.
-- Pete SeegerSource : "We Shall Overcome: An Hour with Legendary Folk Singer & Activist Pete Seeger". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 4, 2006.
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Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.
-- Robert Duvall -
I'm going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts - just speed.
-- Ryan Lochte -
While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
-- Saint Francis de Sales -
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I'm not as involved in every little thing as I used to be.
-- Sanford I. Weill -
When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing.
-- Scott SimonSource : Scott Simon (2015). “Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime”, p.215, Macmillan
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
-- St. Catherine of Siena -
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A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.
-- Steve Vai -
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
-- Terry McAuliffe -
For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
-- Vincent Van Gogh -
If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
-- William H. McRavenSource : "Adm. McRaven Urges Graduates to Find Courage to Change the World". Remarks by Naval Adm. William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, at the University-wide Commencement at The University of Texas at Austin, news.utexas.edu. May 16, 2014.
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Lenny Kravitz was the biggest gentleman on set. He always helped the ladies, like by pulling out the chair for them. If we were both walking, he would always stop and let me go before him-little things like that.
-- Willow Shields -
How come the little things bother you when you are in a bad position? They don't bother you in good positions.
-- Yasser Seirawan -
Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
-- Zeno of Citium -
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The more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized that I had my own little thing that I could do.
-- Cecile McLorin SalvantSource : Source: www.npr.org
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I'm such a contradiction: I eat really healthy, I go to the gym, but then I smoke two or three cigarettes a day, and I smoke other things as well. Overall, I feel really healthy. But sometimes I feel like I'm more sensitive to little things.
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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.
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I'm living the life that I wanted to live and I'm loving every little thing that I do. Fortunately, I have had a very, very charmed life. Wherever I've been, that's what I wanted to be doing, right then.
-- Tarsem SinghSource : Source: collider.com
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Rather than, as an actor, I want the audience to like me, I'm going to smile beautifully and I've got everybody's sympathy - what about showing the moments when somebody is unbelievably petty? Or really selfish? The faults, the little things, those are the things that interested me about playing the character.
-- James CallisSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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Now I have to do a lot more work. I have to train more and do a lot more, you know, work on my body and take care of the little things in order to feel great for my body to be in good shape.
-- Jelena Jankovic