Smallness Quotes - Page 2

• I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

  Barry Diller

  "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2003.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Stars, Power

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.215, Courier Corporation

  65 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who you are is limited only by who you think you are.

  Normandi Ellis

  Thinking, Who You Are

  6 Copy quote

• People who are servants-humbly, honestly, and joyfully-keep getting revealed as the biggest winners. People who recognize and embrace their smallness keep getting bigger and bigger in God's eyes. It's the oddest scoring system.

  John Ortberg

  Eye, People, Winner

  9 Copy quote

• By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding.

  Robert Hooke

  Understanding, Vision, Tools

  Robert Hooke (1667). “Micrographia: Or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon”, p.18

  416 Copy quote

  Show source

• How do you want to live your life? How do you want to play the game? Do you want to play in the big leagues or in the little leagues, in the majors or the minors? Are you going to play big or play small? It's your choice.

  T. Harv Eker

  Life, Games, Play

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 28, 2013

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.

  David Lean

  Desert, Looks, Way

  104 Copy quote

• Universe will be a very small place once we solve our speed problem! When that day comes, no man will talk about the greatness of the universe! All greatness comes from our smallness and from our slowness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Greatness, Men, Problem

  6 Copy quote

• You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Hurt, Too Much, Way

  11 Copy quote

• Let us not have puny thoughts. Let us think on a greater scale. Let us not have those of the future decry our smallness of concept and lack of foresight.

  Adolph Murie

  Thinking, Scales, Foresight

  21 Copy quote

• The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness...

  Wilhelm Reich

  Greatness, Men, Knowing

  "Listen, Little Man!". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1948.

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.

  Helen Keller

  Thinking, Choices, Each Day

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.164, Matthew Gordon

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't put the whole of your identity into the smallness of a situation.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Identity, Situation, Whole

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jun 03, 2013

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated.  Suppose the fight was fixed.  Suppose God took you on a crystal ball trip into your future and you saw with indubitable certainty that despite everything — your sin, your smallness, your stupidity — you could have free for the asking your whole crazy heart’s deepest desire: heaven, eternal joy.  Would you not return fearless and singing?  What can earth do to you, if you are guaranteed heaven?  To fear the worst earthly loss would be like a millionaire fearing the loss of a penny — less, a scratch on a penny.

  Peter Kreeft

  Crazy, Heart, Loss

  Peter Kreeft (1989). “Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing”, p.82, Ignatius Press

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Mean, Greatness, Men

  "Histoire de la Turquie", Volume 1, (p. 277), 1854.

  44 Copy quote

  Show source

• To grow is sometimes to hurt, but who would return to smallness?

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Hurt, Return, Sometimes

  Sarah-Patton Boyle, Jennifer Lynn Ritterhouse (1962). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition”, p.320, University of Virginia Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• As Attraction is stronger in small Magnets than in great ones in proportion to their Bulk, and Gravity is greater in the Surfaces of small Planets than in those of great ones in proportion to their bulk, and small Bodies are agitated much more by electric attraction than great ones; so the smallness of the Rays of Light may contribute very much to the power of the Agent by which they are refracted.

  Isaac Newton

  Light, Stronger, Rays

  Sir Isaac Newton (1718). “Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. ...”, p.326

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.

  Stephen Dunn

  Acceptance, World, Moments

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.

  Pat Conroy

  Lucky, Treasure, Fortune

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.273, Open Road Media

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Work to connect yourself to the allness of life -- instead of identifying with the smallness of it -- and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it.

  Guy Finley

  Rain, Fall, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Feb 13, 2013

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is
  death, of his smallness, of his impotence; he is aware of others as others; man is in nature, subject to its laws even if he transcends it with his thought.

  Erich Fromm

  Believe, Men, Law

  Erich Fromm (2013). “On Being Human”, p.123, Open Road Media

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Motherhood, Careers

  "What's Wrong with the World". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton (Part Three: Feminism, or The Mistake About Woman, Chapter 3: The Emancipation of Domesticity), 1910.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.

  Ally Condie

  Life, People, Needs

  4 Copy quote

• Hate nobody; love everybody. It won't cost you anything. Love never costs anything. Love is the most selfish act. It gives you so much protection, grace, and radiance. It doesn't give you any smallness or suffering. The attitude of conscious living is to love and give grace to someone worthy of your trust. Do not seek anything from people. Give love instead, and rely on God.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Attitude

  11 Copy quote

• The reason "other churches" don't grow: "Jim, the truth is, I couldn't have a real prayer meeting in my church. I'd be embarrassed at the smallness of the crowd..."

  Jim Cymbala

  Prayer, Real, Church

  21 Copy quote