Things Quotes

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

Hesiod

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.

Mary Ann Kelty

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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Bruce Barton

I feel like a micro cog in a macrocosm

Mary Guyette

Little by little does the trick.

Aesop

Inches make champions.

Vince Lombardi

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

Walt Whitman

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.

Norman Lear

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.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Those that are little, little things suit.

Horace

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.

Dr. David Schwartz

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.

J. Willard Marriott

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

Daisy Ashford

Inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Robert H. Schuller

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

Warren Buffett

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.

David D. Burns

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

Walter Benjamin

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach