Small Things Quotes

“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”
― André Gide, Autumn Leaves

“But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

“Maybe it’s not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to ask. I could choose to believe that in every day, in all things, no matter how dark and ugly, there are shards of beauty if I look for them.”
― Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

“The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone.”
― Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone

“He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.”
― Greg Mortenson

“Don't sit on the fence; break it and move out! Don’t be confined to the little things you do; the sky should be below your limit!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Sometimes the smallest things are so damn unforgivable. Maybe because they aren't small—they only seem that way to someone else. You never know what someone holds scared until it's too late.”
― James Anderson, The Never-Open Desert Diner

“The Lord likes small things best, especially those done with love.”
― Mother Teresa

“The missing comes in waves, some more intense than others. I miss the toothpaste globs he left in the sink, how he’d watch the morning news while I ate breakfast. I miss crying on his shoulder, talking his ears off, being the first person to hear about his good days and the first to embrace him on his bad ones. I miss the small things more than the big things because the small things proved he was mine.”
― Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

“Thus do the gods speak with tiny causes.”
― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

“When you need to let it out, write. Get it out of you and onto paper. Just remember it may start small, but it could grow to be something big. When you reach times of overwhelmingness take a deep breath and allow it to slowly escape. It is a wonder how a repetitive action such as breathing can make you feel. These are the words I find myself being constantly reminded of.”
― Christina Casino, Unforeseen

“Nothing is small when you magnify it by eternity.”
― Reed S. Hansen, Ri Conquers the Multiverse

“The small things in life is the main source of happiness. Money will never be enough! Has we get older our thirst for happiness will increase. A child will be happier than an adult simply because some of the small things that we look over, they are making the most of it. Even going to the park that child will run around, play with the birds an feel great, while we as the adults might not find or see the joy in those things. Our mind may be focused on our next goal, on things we are having a challenge to achieve or simply worrying about things we can not change.”
― Hopal Green

“It’s a small thing, but people who consistently express gratitude develop a higher level of awareness for all the things in their lives they have to be grateful for.⁣”
― Richie Norton

“It's small things that determine our credibility for bigger things. If one can't be trusted with small projects never can they deliver when given big projects. Unfaithfulness in pennies indicates corrupted morals, never will the trust be manifested in dollars.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Winning can be defined as accomplishing something - no matter how small or how big.”
― Christina Casino

“Dwarf things. Small things. Little things in relation to the norm. Insignificant things. Things with different dimensions. Curiously, the stories I like the most are made up of trivialities. Details. Trifles. These days, people look to what's big. The big picture, big sales figures, success. Bright lights, interviews, breaking news. Whatever's famous. Importance judged by fame. Maybe small things are subversive. Living on a modest scale compared to the norm. Maybe the dwarf is the hero of our time.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“Why settle for smaller things, when God has greater things for you?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“She didn't want to hate when it was so much more wonderful, joyous, to love.”
― Irving Schulman, West Side Story

“It’s not the greatest but the little things that show us the path and guide us home.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“He didn’t know that in some places, like the country that Rahel came from, various kinds of despair competed for primacy. And that personal despair could never be desperate enough. That something happened when personal turmoil dropped by at the wayside shrine of the vast, violent, circling, driving, ridiculous, insane, unfeasible, public turmoil of a nation. That Big God howled like a hot wind, and demanded obeisance. Then Small God (cozy and contained, private and limited) came away cauterized, laughing numbly at his own temerity.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“A woman who thinks big does not let small things distract her. She focuses on her mission because she is a woman of vision.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“The nice thing about being beneath notice was that nothing else was beneathmynotice.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“If you want to make it big, remember to do the small things well.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“It’s a big world but we are small.
Every little thing matters a lot.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“If you want to turn your life around, start enjoying the little things in life with a big, big smile.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“It’s not always the big things but the little things that are going well in our lives that make our day.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“The small things were never what ruined you. If she were kneeling and examining the shells on the beach, she wouldn't see the titanic wave raising over her head.

What sort of things would she wonder about, if she weren't always waiting for the next wave to come?”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“it was the small pleasures of his work that seemed in their simplicities to fill him to the brim.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

“Some hours are long and some days are short. Find time to cherish the small moments.”
― Juliette Rose Kerr, To Fill a Jar With Water