The Small Quotes

Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For better or worse. God puts us all in each other's lives to impact one another in some way.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

3. There are bears and there are small dogs. Be strong like bear! If they take out your teeth, sit on the dogs. Bears always forget they can just sit on the dogs. Sit on the dogs.

I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred.

As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.

Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people.

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

I'll start with small things.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors.

I understand small business growth. I was one.

Why worry about these small, small things? I don't stress. You never hear of anyone dying of happiness.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.

The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can't sweat the small stuff.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.

Win small, win early, win often.

John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colours of a rainbow.

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

Never underestimate the impact of a small act.

If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.

I wanted to do something that small towns would enjoy.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

What a treasure is hidden in two small words: 'thank you!'

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass.

The biggest in the world is small in its beginning.

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside-down. Like a... small child.

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited range of activities in a small number of domains.

It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is.