Small Things Quotes - Page 10

• I think the success around any product is really about subtle insights. You need a great product and a bigger vision to execute against, but its really those small things that make the big difference.

  Chad Hurley

  Thinking, Differences, Vision

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• Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.

  Daryl Hannah

  Stress, Life Is Too Short, Life Is

  "Daryl Hannah: I've battled autism since childhood" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, www.today.com. September 27, 2013.

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• Even if you've never experienced the wonderful things in life, only after something has been contaminated and marred will it become a beautiful thing. Pain can be healed with gentle care, darkness can be removed with sunlight. Don't underestimate the small things. Everything is significant.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Beautiful, Pain, Things In Life

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• It's not about one person doing one big thing ... It's about a lot of people doing small things that really make the difference.

  Kevin Jonas

  Differences, People, Bigs

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• The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like building a great Buddha from a one foot model.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Men, Feet

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.12, Bottom of the Hill

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• 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

  Weight, Want, Pounds

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• The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment.
  Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness.
  So always strive for that.
  Set your life around that goal.
  Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Goal, Enlightenment, Purpose

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• I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

  Barbara Delinsky

  Disappointment, Fear, Father

  Barbara Delinsky (2011). “Escape”, p.98, Anchor

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• It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love." - Mother Theresa

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Great Love, Much Love

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• You know," he said with unusual somberness, "I asked my father once why kenders were little, why we weren't big like humans and elves. I really wanted to be big," he said softly and for a moment he was quiet. "What did your father say?" asked Fizban gently. "He said kenders were small because we were meant to do small things. 'If you look at all the big things in the world closely,' he said, 'you'll see that they're really made up of small things all joined together.' That big dragon down there comes to nothing but tiny drops of blood, maybe. It's the small things that make the difference.

  Margaret Weis

  Father, Dragons, Blood

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2006). “Dragonlance Chronicles”

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• Love has no meaning if it isn't shared. We have been created for greater things - to love and to be loved... To love a person without any conditions, without any expectations. Small things, done in great love, bring joy and peace. To love, it is necessary to give. To give, it is necessary to be free from selfishness.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving, Great Love, Expectations

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• Small things done with great love will change the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Great Love, Done, World

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• When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy the quiet evening hours it is beautiful; a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy such things.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Beautiful, Hero, Mean

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• When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Feelings

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• Small things affects small minds.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mind, Small Minds

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• Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational Life, Greatness, Done

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• A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

  Lord Dunsany

  Nature, Night, Men

  Lord Dunsany (2015). “Plays of Gods and Men”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their world.

  Tove Jansson

  World, Hundred, Made

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominpappa at Sea”, p.4, Macmillan

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• The girl she said, I didn’t tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hearts are so precious. They don’t want to lose them.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Girl, Home, Heart

  FaceBook post by Edwidge Danticat from Nov 01, 2013

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• Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

  Andre Maurois

  Life, Motivational, Real

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• The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lying, Godly, Speaking Well

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.268, OUP Oxford

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• You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world? First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.

  Ramakrishna

  Spiritual, Mean, Discipline

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair.

  Valerie Wilson Wesley

  Fighting, Blessing, Clouds

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• Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements ... those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Achievement

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• Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if he had been damned for the race, that would have been act of a size proper to a god, and would have saved the whole race.

  Mark Twain

  Jesus, Men, Race

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