Small Things Quotes

346 quotes by 270 authors

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a houseâ€¦love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film,… — David Byrne
The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person, — Nelson Mandela
Doing small things with love is the atom of bravery. — Mark Nepo
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… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to… — Henry Van Dyke
Life is an exercise in the development of feeling. When we repress feelings, we become sour and judgmental. When we live awash in great feeling… — Joan D. Chittister
Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic. — Stephen Mansfield
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally. — Honore de Balzac
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.... — Neil Gaiman
I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less… — W. Somerset Maugham
If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well. — Etty Hillesum
Do one small thing immediately - often this is all you need to do to get started. — Brian Tracy
I will be small in small things, great among great. — Pindar
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others. — Alexander McCall Smith
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… — Janet Suzman
I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the… — Todd Solondz
On grass, it can be the small things that decide a match. — Caroline Wozniacki
In every marriage the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her. — John O'Hara
It's getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It's getting too late to not be brave, to not live my… — Helen Hunt

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