Quotes and Sayings about Small Things

Statecraft is the art of attending to small matters as diligently as grand ones.

Even the smallest of us are capable of great things.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

A very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

A mosquito is more annoying for a lion than a lion is for a mosquito.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.

I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay.

Small things can grow into big problems.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can!

Small things amuse small minds.

A river is made drop by drop.

While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.

I've learned that you are never too small to make a difference.

Small things make me happy, and I laugh out loud on the silliest of jokes!

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.

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.

It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.

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

Every drop in the ocean counts.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Little changes can start to make a difference in the world.

People underestimate the importance of detail to the overall impact.

"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."

The little things... there's nothing bigger, is there?

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

If anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.

Life goes by in the blink of an eye. Appreciate the moments.

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Maybe it's not about being the best. Maybe it's about finding little things, that get you through the day. Whether it's the support of someone close to you, or letting yourself feel overwhelmed - if only for a moment.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

"Just living is not enough", said the butterfly.
"One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."

To achieve anything great in life you must be willing to make a sacrifice.

Sometimes in life when you get what you want, you end up missing what you left behind.

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. I choose a mortal life.

Why didn't Noah get rid of the two mosquitos?

"You see, Momo," he told her one day, "it's like this: Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept."
He gazed silently into space before continuing.
"And then you start to hurry," he went on. "You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much left to sweep as before, and you try even harder, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop - and still the street stretches away in front of you. That's not the way to do it."

He pondered a while. Then he said, "You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else."
Again he paused for thought before adding, "That way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that's how it ought to be."

People say "nothing is impossible", but I do nothing every day.