Little Things Quotes
- Sarah Ind
- Aug 16, 2021
- 8 min read
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