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As I remember my grandfather and those Christmas mornings he gave for a little girl's pleasure, I know that often a big life starts with doing small things. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Napoleon Hill

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I want to talk to the audience. This is what I've been doing in my work in French forever - talking about small things becoming big problems. I notice all the details, all the tiny little things.

Gad Elmaleh

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

Marcel Proust

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

Janet Suzman

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

For many people, the family is portrayed as the settled place of reasonable safety, but as anyone who has read 'The God of Small Things' would know, for me it was a dangerous place. I felt humiliated in that space. I wanted to get away as soon as I could.

Arundhati Roy

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent Van Gogh

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

Alvin Toffler

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

Jose Ortega y Gasset

There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

Ronald Steel

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

Arne Jacobsen

Small things amuse small minds.

Doris Lessing

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

bell hooks

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

Sallust

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

T. Harv Eker

You can do things in every part of the world. You can do things in every discipline. You can do large things, you can do small things. But it takes a while to figure out what you actually want to do. And it changes. As you change your interests and desires in philanthropy change, I think you have to be open to that change.

Marc Benioff

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

George Eliot

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

Vernor Vinge

Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.

Yuvraj Singh

We never worry about the big things, just the small things.

Travis Barker

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

Kevin Hart

Men don't pay attention to small things.

Katherine Johnson

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can't get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Joyce Meyer

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

Edward Everett Hale

Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.

Liz Vassey

There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good.

Sebastian Vettel

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

Alexander McCall Smith

You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. You can do small things.

Patti Smith

Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.

Roderick MacKinnon

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.

Maya Angelou

Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer email, I write a little bit.

Aaron Swartz

A good way to take a baby step into the world of animal rights is to make a list of small things you can do to help your issue and work your way up to the big things. Make a promise to do one thing on your list each month.

Jenna Morasca

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.

Nelson Mandela