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Little Things Quotes

Updated: Apr 1, 2024

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Robert Brault


There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.

Mike Leavitt


The little things are infinitely the most important.

Arthur Conan Doyle


Changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you’re willing to stick with them for years.

James Clear


One step at a time.



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

Alvin Toffler


The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

William Morris


The honey doesn't taste so good once it is being eaten; the goal doesn't mean so much once it is reached; the reward is no so rewarding once it has been given. If we add up all the rewards in our lives, we won't have very much. But if we add up the spaces between the rewards, we'll come up with quite a bit. And if we add up the rewards and the spaces, then we'll have everything - every minute of the time that we spent.

Benjamin Hoff


We fought so hard against the small things that we became small ourselves.

Eugene O’Neill


Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

Henry Ford


Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

Sally Koch


Do something, however small, that is energetic, adventurous, assertive or bold.



Be eager to fulfill the smallest duty and flee from transgression, for one duty induces another and one transgression induces another transgression.

Talmud


It’s the little things that count.



Most dazzling human achievements are, in fact, the aggregate of countless individual elements, each of which is, in a sense, ordinary.

Angela Duckworth


All big things come from small beginnings. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision.

James Clear


Great opportunities come to those who make the most of small ones.



The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.

Natalie Angier


Some of nature’s most exquisite handiwork is on a miniature scale, as anyone knows who has applied a magnifying glass to a snowflake.

Rachel Carson


The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Blaise Pascal


Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie


Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Frank A Clark


Only by being obsessed with little things do amazing things emerge.

Andy Dunn


If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.



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

Gilbert K Chesterton


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

Vincent Van Gogh


The main thing is that greatness is doable. Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.

Angela Duckworth


I cannot do everything, but I can do something. One person can make a difference.



Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Phillips Brooks


No step forward is too small. Just be sure it’s taking you to the right dream, then take more of those tiny steps.

Israelmore Ayivor


Learn to appreciate small quiet moments, the ocean, a walk on the beach, time alone, your health, your strength, your smile, your life.

Germany Kent


Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Robert Brault


Little strokes fell great oaks.

Benjamin Franklin


I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.

Larry David


God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.

Ellen G White


Find gratitude in the little things and your well of gratitude will never run dry.

Antonia Montoya


Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can't lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest.

Ryan Cabrera


Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Lawrence Bell


Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.



It's always the little things that make the big things happen.

Jeffrey Fry


I believe that no matter what situation in life you find yourself, there is room for you to take control of little things, which ultimately adds up to big things.

Lisa J Shultz


He who does not wish for little things does not deserve big things.

Belgian Proverb


Without water drops, there can be no oceans; without steps, there can be no stairs; without little things, there can be no big things!

Mehmet Murat ildan


Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in our heart.

Winnie The Pooh


Step by step. I can’t think of any other way of accomplishing anything.

Michael Jordan


It’s a tough life, and It’s the little things that get us through the day.

Jeffery Deaver


It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

John Wooden


Rejoice in small things and they will continue to grow.

Slaven Vuji


Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

H Jackson Brown Jr


No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

Channing Pollock


Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Robert Service


The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Helen Keller


Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Camille Pissarro


Most people seem to want tremendous improvement, instantly. But you'll probably find it's the little things you do that eventually add up to big results.

Joel Weldon


We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Marian Wright Edelman


Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Henry Ford


Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Saul Bellow


The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Chinese Proverb


Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things.

Bruce Barton


Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier


Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Saul Bellow


Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once.



True greatness consists in being great in the little things.

Charles Simmons


Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

Henri Frederic


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


I live to enjoy life by the littlest things, feeling the grass between my toes, breathing fresh air, watching the wind sway the trees, enjoying the company of loved ones, a deep conversation, getting lost in a good book, going for a walk in nature, watching my kids grow up. Just the feeling itself of being alive, the absolute amazing fact that we are here right now, breathing, thinking, doing.

Marigold Wellington


Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Henry Clay


It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The Lord likes small things best, especially those done with love.

Mother Teresa


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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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.

Booker T Washington


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

George Eliot


It's the small things that will make you successful.


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


God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.

Ellen G White


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

Mother Teresa


Life is not made up of great sacrifices and duties but of little things in which smiles and kindness given habitually are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Sir Humphry Davy


Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Robert Brault


One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Nido Qubein


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

Lao Tzu


The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions. The little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment – countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feelings.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is be systematically heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.

William James


It is through our failure to endure the tests that come to us in little things that the habits are molded, the character misshaped; and when the greater tests

Ellen G White


Great Estates may venture more, but Little Boats should keep near the shore.

Benjamin Franklin


Helen Keller


Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Lao Tzu


It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery, and as much happiness as possible.

Samuel Johnson


The importance of little things is underrated just because they are small, but the influence of the little things for good or evil is great. They supply much of the actual discipline of life for every human being. They are part of the training of the soul in the sanctification of all our entrusted talents to God. Faithfulness in the little things in the line of duty makes the worker in God’s service reflect more and more the likeness of Christ.

Ellen G White


If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

Martin Luther King Jr


The best portion of a good man’s life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

William Wordsworth

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