The Small Quotes

Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.

All happiness is built upon small efforts.

I can't abide small talk.

A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.

I could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

Most small-business owners will tell you they don't want Obama 'boosting' them. They just want him to get out of the way.

Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.

Like most of us, I determined that I'd rather be a large part of the problem than a small part of the solution.

A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

Basically, as a kid I grew up to a lot of good music, and part of my appreciation for music, from being a small child, was appreciating Jamaican music.

To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.

Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great

I'm a small government conservative.

I'd rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.

Even small efforts to bring about a change in the social fabric eventually reap large fruits.

The small countries of the world are as important as the big nations.

The East European small countries have a sense of betrayal, of having been forgotten by Western leaders.

The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person.

If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace.

Set small goals along the way and don't be overwhelmed by the process.

I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.

The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family.

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

Your small goals are clear and you understand the actions and know the path you need to take to reach these goals. In your mind, they're achievable and you know it's just a matter of time.

Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.

We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than any other major country.

Should a small business or a large business be able to pollute the water or the air or the food? No, I hope you don't believe that.

People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.

You can have a worldwide shop from your bedroom. You can do things that weren't even dreamed of when I started off in business. It's why technology is the most wonderful thing for small businesses.

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

For the newborn and wise, everything begins small.

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only hydrogen and helium to work with, so they'd all be gas giants and not small, rocky planets.

Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.

Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get.

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.

Nothing great ever happens from thinking small.