Quotes on Small Things

You have to practice success. Success doesn't just show up. If you aren't practicing success today, you won't wake up in 20 years and be successful, because you won't have developed the habits of success, which are small things like finishing what you start, putting a lot of effort into everything you do, being on time, treating people well.

These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.

I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased

For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. I see the church as a field hospital after battle... The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules. The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.

The Warrior of the Light pays attention to small things because they can severely hamper him.

Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.

Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously.

No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

This miracle is in the small things of daily life; we must live in the understanding that at every moment there is a way out of each problem, the way of finding that which is missing, the right clue to the decision which must be taken in order to change our entire future.

It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love." - Mother Theresa