The Small Quotes

The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.

The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.

There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.

As a big creature, if you do not respect small creatures, you will be even much smaller than them!

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

A small town has as many eyes as a fly

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.

For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

Set a goal, write it down, and release the outcome. Small steps make a big difference.

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts.

Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.

It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.

It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.

You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can’t expect years and years of it.

Celebrate small victories often. Mourn failures quickly. Do what's necessary without fanfare.

The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

There is no small pleasure in pure water.

There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as veggie-burghers.

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

Heaven will ask things of you at some point, perhaps small things at first. You must be ready.

I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.

I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.

I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

It's a small town; everybody eats in the same cafe; everybody gets their hair cut in the same barber shop. That kind of community building, I think, begins to bridge those gaps.

I would tell myself the same thing that I continue to tell myself today, which is don't sweat the small things.

I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.

I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

When playing against big teams, it's the small details that count.

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

Our small acts of faith and service are how most of us can continue in God and eventually bring eternal light and glory to our family, our friends, and our associates.

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.

I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.

Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly.

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

Here's a two step formula for handling stress. Step number one: Don't sweat the small stuff. Step number two: Remember it's all small stuff.

I'm petite, only 5 feet tall, so occasionally I'd get an audition for a small person. But small people and little people are technically different.