Small Things Quotes - Page 8

• If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Trying, Impossible

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• I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.

  Bernard Malamud

  Order, Giving, Confusion

  "The Fixer". Book by Bernard Malamud, Part Five, 1966.

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• I am Moody... and a Cancerian to the boot. Even a small thing can change the entire mood, but I'm working on that. Besides, I'm also loyal and possessive.

  Katrina Kaif

  Boots, Loyal, Mood

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• Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.

  Christina Baldwin

  Inspirational, Confusion, Despair

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• When there is a respect for small things, there will be an even greater respect towards the bigger things. When there is no respect for small things, then neither will there be for the bigger ones. This is how the Fathers maintained Tradition.

  Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

  Respect, Father, Little Things

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• In the popular arena, one can tell ... that the average man ... imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render him a man of knowledge. With what pathetic trust does he recite his facts! He has been told that knowledge is power, and knowledge consists of a great many small things.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Average, Doe

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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• the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Things In Life, Littles, Little Things

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.454, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.

  Bonaventure

  Religious, Men, Perfect

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• Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.

  Rajneesh

  Race, Religion, Crowds

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• Without big words, how could many people say small things?

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  People, Bigs

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• A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Life, Too Much, Remember

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarvepalli Gopal (1980). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an anthology”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Part of our identity is the idea that racism is still there and that we are vulnerable to it. So, the question is, 'How vulnerable?' In other words, is it really a problem for us, or is it just a small thing. How do you evaluate racism in America on a scale of 1 to 10? My suspicion is that most blacks overrate it a bit. Not to say it's not there, but we overrate it because this masking is part of our relationship to the larger society. This is a way we keep whites on the hook. We keep them obligated, and we keep ourselves entitled. There's an incentive, you see, to inflate it a little bit.

  Shelby Steele

  Ideas, America, Racism

  "Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Can’t Win Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 27, 2008.

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• I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Wrestling, Writing, Thinking

  Source: churchleaders.com

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• Small things lead to big changes.

  Allen Hershkowitz

  Bigs, Big Changes

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• We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Long

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• Your heart, my friend, is the size of a stadium. If you try to fill it with small things - a new car, a vacation, a promotion at work, a bigger home, a stock portfolio - a mournful echo will fill your life. But if you fill your stadium with all of humanity and search for ways to make their lives better each day, you will find yourself in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing in the right way.

  Roy H. Williams

  Heart, Home, Vacation

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• I am endlessly fascinated by this notion that everyone has a secret. Some of our secrets are tiny, small things, and some of them are huge. Given that reality of the human condition, that's what our characters will go through. There will be some things where you'll just be like, "What the hell! How the hell did that happen?"

  Veena Sud

  Character, Reality, Secret

  Source: collider.com

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• I want to do small things, for small people, and to make the small people big.

  Narendra Modi

  People, Empowerment, India

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• I like small things, I like small moments that are almost elliptical, that are not necessarily linear; they're natural things that happen in the world, but if you look at them from a slight angle there's more than meets the eye.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Eye, Looks

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• I enjoy that, and the idea of doing small things over a period of time. I think there are certain things you can do for water control in America, because that will be our most precious resource. In America, you pay more for water than you do for gas.

  Robin Williams

  Thinking, Ideas, America

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Nothing that I can encounter today can be as bad as what is behind me. There are small things that used to upset me, but now I just think: Who cares?

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Thinking, Upset, Encounters

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Past, Calling, Eloquence

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• Hollywood dishes out too much praise for small things I won't let it get me, but too much praise can turn a fellow's head if he doesn't watch his step.

  LeBron James

  Hollywood, Watches, Too Much

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• Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.

  Guy Finley

  Fearless, Days To Come, Thousand

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• People who say that small things don't bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.

  Dennis Rainey

  People, Mosquitoes, Rooms

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