Quotes about things and little things

"Little by little does the trick."

Aesop on things and little things
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"What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on things and little things   

"My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind."

Ashford, Daisy on things and little things   

"Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."

Baker, Russell (Wayne) on things and little things   

"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things."

Barton, Bruce on things and little things   

"Nothing can be done except little by little."

Baudelaire, Charles on things and little things   

"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things."

Bell, Lawrence D. on things and little things
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"Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories."

Benjamin, Walter on things and little things   

"As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart."

Breathnach, Sarah Ban on things and little things   

"I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over."

Buffett, Warren on things and little things   

"It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works."

Burns, David D. on things and little things   

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves."

Carnegie, Dale on things and little things   

"Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on things and little things   

"There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps."

Cohen, Peter A. on things and little things   

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -- the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimal of pleasurable and genial feeling."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on things and little things   

"A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark."

Dante Alighieri on things and little things
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"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on things and little things   

"I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on things and little things
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"Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend."

Dunphy, Elizabeth on things and little things
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"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."

Edelman, Marian Wright on things and little things
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"It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness -- calling their denial knowledge."

Eliot, George on things and little things   

"You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth."

Elytis, Odysseus on things and little things
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"A small leak can sink a great ship"

Franklin, Benjamin on things and little things   

"Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day."

Franklin, Benjamin on things and little things   

"For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on things and little things   

"I feel like a micro cog in a macrocosm"

Guyette, Mary on things and little things   

"All good work is done the way ants do things, little by little."

Hearn, Lafcadio on things and little things   

"If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great."

Hesiod on things and little things   

"Those that are little, little things suit."

Horace on things and little things   

"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   

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

Keller, Helen on things and little things
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"Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments."

Kelty, Mary Ann on things and little things
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"It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure."

Kleiser, Grenville on things and little things   

"All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small."

Lao-Tzu on things and little things   

"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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"The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on things and little things   

"As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown..."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on things and little things   

"Inches make champions."

Lombardi, Vince on things and little things   

"Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things."

Mandino, Og on things and little things
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"It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class."

Marriott, J. Willard on things and little things