The Small Quotes

I came up in a small town ghetto and I never did think I'd be a celebrity or famous athlete, I was just loving to play the game of basketball. And I worked hard at everything I did.

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.

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

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.

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent

Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things.

Lie on your back and look at the stars.

It's more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.

It was a small town: Ferguson, Ohio. When you entered there was a big sign and it said, "Welcome to Ferguson. Beware of the Dog." The all-night drugstore closed at noon.

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other.

I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.

A small number of choice books are sufficient.

People who dream small dreams continue to live as small people.

Sweat the small stuff. Without letting anyone see you sweat.

Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?

The important thing is to believe in what you do. Have a big dream and take small steps.

Sometimes small things lead to great joys.

I've had small parts in big pictures and big parts in small pictures.

I don't feel like I can change the world. I don't even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.

It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.

If you're on a beach and a tsunami hits, you'll drown whether you're a small child or an Olympic swimmer. Some things will go bad no matter how good you are.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

There is a much bigger picture we are all striving for. To sweat the small stuff just stresses you out for no reason.

I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.

Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

Big things come in small packages!