Quotes about things and little things

"We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love."

Mother Teresa on things and little things
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"It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil."

Nerval, Gerard De on things and little things   

"The thing that goes the farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile."

Nesbit, Wilbur D. on things and little things   

"We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it."

Picasso, Pablo on things and little things   

"What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us."

Proust, Marcel on things and little things   

"Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done."

Proverb, Persian on things and little things   

"Inch by inch, it's a cinch."

Schuller, Robert H. on things and little things   

"The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. A house is built one brick at a time. Football games are won a play at a time. A department store grows bigger one customer at a time. Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments."

Schwartz, David J. on things and little things   

"A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching."

Sivananda, Sri Swami on things and little things   

"Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans -- the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum."

Sontag, Susan on things and little things
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"All great things are only a number of small things that have carefully been collected together."

Unknown, Source on things and little things   

"Increased QUALITY/PRODUCTIVITY is made up of 1000s of small improvements. Just like Gulliver who was held down by 1000s of threads. Each one doesn't seem to mean much, and in the case of a thread, can be easily broken. But 1000s of them can have a very strong effect."

Unknown, Source on things and little things   

"Little pots soon boil over."

Unknown, Source on things and little things   

"Someone has calculated that in fifteen minutes a day we can read the Bible through twice in a year's time."

Unknown, Source on things and little things   

"If we triumph in the little things of our common hours, we are sure to triumph in our lives."

Unknown, Source on things and little things   

"To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small."

Unknown, Source on things and little things   

"I believe in the total depravity of inanimate things... the elusiveness of soap, the knottiness of strings, the transitory nature of buttons, the inclination of suspenders to twist and of hooks to forsake their lawful eyes, and cleave only unto the hairs of their hapless owner's head."

Walker, Katharine on things and little things   

"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."

Washington, Booker T. on things and little things   

"It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones."

Webster, Jean on things and little things   

"There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe."

Whitman, Walt on things and little things
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"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."

Wilder, Laura Ingalls on things and little things   

"It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen."

Wooden, John on things and little things
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"Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself."

Zeno, Citium on things and little things