Little Things Quotes

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

Terry McAuliffe

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.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Odysseus Elytis

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

Russell Baker

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

Marcel Proust

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.

Lawrence D. Bell

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.

Katharine Walker

A small leak can sink a great ship

Benjamin Franklin

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

Lafcadio Hearn

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.

Og Mandino

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

John Wooden

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

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

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

Jos

The thing that goes the farthest

Wilbur D. Nesbit

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.

Gerard De Nerval

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.

Marian Wright Edleman

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.

George Eliot

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

Peter A. Cohen

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.

Sri Swami Sivananda

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

Jean Webster