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• 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

  Success, Attention, Life Is

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• Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Being Strong

  "Attitude : The Power of Positivity". Book by Dr Kenneth Morton, p.56, 2011.

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• The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Religion, Important, Gardening

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 46, 1799.

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• What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Black, Storm, Littles

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• The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it; if we only undertake little things, it only gives us power for little things; but if we try to do great things in a great way it gives us all the power there is.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Giving, Trying, Principles

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.5, e-artnow

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• The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  "What We Live by". Book by Ernest Dimnet, p. 238, 1932.

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• You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

  Andy Warhol

  Bores You, Boredom, Needs

  "Andy Warhol's party book".

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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• Those that are little, little things suit.

  Horace

  Littles, Suits, Action

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• A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

  Sivananda

  Ocean, Water, Mountain

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• For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from The Hague, www.webexhibits.org. October 22, 1882.

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• It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

  Jean Webster

  Inspirational, Happiness, Small Pleasures

  Jean Webster (2004). “Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy”, p.105, Penguin

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• What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Littles, Causes, Great Things

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• I know well that happiness is in little things.

  John Ruskin

  Littles, Wells, Knows

  John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

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• I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Retirement, Over You

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• Let me tell you something big: Give importance to little things!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Giving, Littles, Bigs

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• 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 Dale Bell

  Inspirational, Wrestling, Greatness

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• If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.

  Hesiod

  Add, Littles, Ifs

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• It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.

  David D. Burns

  Giving, Focus, Sound

  David D. Burns (1980). “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”

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• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

  William James

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There are no little things.

  Bruce Barton

  Wrestling, Littles

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

  Bruce Barton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The most powerful way to change the world is to secretly commit little acts of compassion. You must behave as if your every act, even the smallest, impacted a thousand people for a hundred generations. Because it does.

  Thom Hartmann

  Powerful, Compassion, People

  Thom Hartmann (1997). “The Prophet's Way: Touching the Power of Life”

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• It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.

  J. Willard Marriott

  Class, Excellence, Details

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