For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar pl

You’re spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

Their highest concept of right conduct, in his case, was to get a job. That was their first word and their last. It constituted their whole lexicon of ideas. Get a job! Go to work! Poor, stupid slaves, he thought, while his sister talked. Small wonder the world belonged to the strong. The slaves were obsessed by their own slavery. A job was to them a golden fetich before which they fell down and worshipped.

He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater

When I was small, I would sit next to my dad and watch the round-up highlights programmed with him, and we would talk about the games. I loved it.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito

If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small

The first view of the Earth is magical. It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me. I could not get over the notion that in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred.

We have such a small part of the street, we’re at like a dead end.

Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society

Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in our hearts.

It is hard to be brave, when you’re only a Very Small Animal.

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

Sometimes,’ said Pooh, ‘the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

He puts a pot, big enough to boil a small missionary, onto the wide burner and chucks in skeleton segments two-handed.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions, great or small.

Your world is only as small as you make it.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

America is too great for small dreams.

Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, and on unselfish performance; without them, it cannot live.

We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood… So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness

The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small — Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all —

To gain the sea, with one small sail, to venture in expertest ship, is Heavenly.

The soul’s superior instants occur to the great and the small.

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.

No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too

If you have an important decision to make, or even a small one, it is good to make your decision with the guidance of the Lord.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

With a small mass of our men, we can make them do anything.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

It’s worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.

Giant leaps often start with small steps.

If you think small, your world will be small. If you think big, your world will be big.

When in doubt, just take the next small step.

In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it’s the one.

In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane, and a derby hat. Everything is a contradiction: the pants are baggy, the coat tight, the hat small, and the shoes large.

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Yet the widespread planetary theories seemed likewise to present no small difficulty.

I wasn’t a misanthrope and I wasn’t a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Through pride, we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience, a still, small voice says to us, ‘Something is out of tune.

I am a libertarian with a small ‘l’ and a Republican with a capital ‘R’. And I am a Republican with a capital ‘R’ on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

Many small make a great.

A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities

My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off Judgement. God alone knows whether I shall ever see them again. Quite apart from the money which I was going to receive for their sale there (exhibition in Gallery Der Sturm, Berlin June-July, 1914) and it is no small sum.

Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas. Bring me big ideas to match our future.

Look for small victories and build on that. Each small victory, even if it is just getting up five minutes earlier, gives you confidence. You realize that these little victories make you feel great, and you keep going. You realize that being paralyzed by fear of failure is worse than failure.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

One small misunderstanding can show you exactly how a person really feels about you

I’m left with one consolation, small though it may be: my fountain pen was cremated, just as I would like to be some day.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.

How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway. And you can always, always give something—even if it is only kindness

If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

I feel very, very privileged to be a very small part of it.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.