"Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything."

Lear, Norman on things and little things
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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on wisdom   

"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little."

Epicurus on abundance
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"Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans."

Schwartz, David J. on belief   

"If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito."

Walker, Michelle on potential
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"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."

Ford, Henry on simplicity
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"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Twain, Mark on ambition
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"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible."

Johnson, Samuel on things and little things   

"The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition."

Jung, Carl on promises   

"You can't know too much, but you can say too much."

Coolidge, Calvin on knowledge
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"Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently."

Proverb, Chinese on family
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"No dreamer is ever to small; no dream is ever to big."

Unknown, Source on dream
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"A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on conceit
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"Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps."

Schmidt, Helmut on action   

"Mighty things from small beginnings grow."

Dryden, John on power
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"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

Aesop on kindness
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"Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people."

Gibson, Tobias S. on ideas
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"We grow small trying to be great."

Jones, Eli Stanley on ambition
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"Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself."

Proverb, Scottish on faults
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"Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime."

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De on reason   

"Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."

Steinem, Gloria on parents and parenting
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"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly."

Paine, Thomas on appreciation
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"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt."

Van Horne, William on knowledge