Smallest Quotes

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.

Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall.

It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.

The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?

...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.

The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.

Start by thinking of the smallest possible action you could take; then, take it. Then, choose the next smallest action, and do that.

Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things.

cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.

Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell.

Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation.

Researchers found a frog in new guinea that is so tiny, they believe it's the smallest vertebrate on the planet. It has the tiniest backbone of any living creature, except members of Congress.

Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.

The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]

We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.

I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on the power and the wisdom of God in even the smallest flowers!

I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.

Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.

Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.

Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.

She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.

Our difficulties launch us into new states of consciousness where we are inspired to step out of the reality of our smallest thoughts and step into the limitless freedom of our biggest dreams.

If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives.