- A happy life is made up of little things: a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent. ~ Carol Holmes
- A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.~ Vince Lombardi
- Buried deep in the maze of commonplace, the pearl of true happiness lies. And he, who rejoices in little things, finds the pathway that leads to the prize. ~ Lucy M. Thompson
- Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. ~ Goethe
- Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done. ~ Persian Proverb
- Do not forget that prayer is ordained for the purpose of glorifying the name of God. Therefore, whether you pray for big things or for little things, say to God, “If it will glorify Thy name, then grant my prayer and help me.” ~ O. Hallesby
- Do well the little things now; so shall great things come to thee by and by asking to be done. ~ Persian Proverb
- Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~ Robert Brault
- Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. ~ Frank A. Clark
- I know well that happiness is in little things. ~ John Ruskin
- If we triumph in the little things of our common hours, we are sure to triumph in our lives. ~ Author Unknown
- It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better. ~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
- It is the little things that fret and worry us; you can dodge an elephant, but not a fly. ~ Josh Billings
- It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. ~ John Wooden
- It’s the little things that count. You can sit on top of a mountain, but you can’t sit on a tack. ~ Author Unknown
- 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. ~ Willard J. Marriott
- It’s the little things that matter that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend. ~ Elizabeth Dunphy
- Life is a great bundle of little things. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things. ~ Charles Simmons
- Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. ~ Sir Humphrey Davy
- Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all these little things and are not hurt. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- Little things affect little minds. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- Never neglect the little things. ~ Og Mandino
- One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction. ~ Nido Qubein
- Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. ~ Epictetus
- Self mastery comes through denial of the little things. ~ Author Unknown
- Service isn’t a big thing. It’s a million little things. ~ Author Unknown
- 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 D. Bell
- Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things. ~ Bruce Barton
- Success is in the little things you do, and in the things you say. Success is not in getting rich or rising high to fame…. Success is being big of heart, and clean and broad in mind; it’s being faithful to your friends, and to the stranger, kind. ~ Author Unknown
- The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints — and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things. ~ Sir Hugh Walpole
- The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ~ Ernest Dimnet
- The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
- The little things are infinitely the most important. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The way to succeed is never quit. That’s it. But really be humble about it…. You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there. ~ Alex Hailey
- There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things. ~ Dwight L. Moody
- There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. ~ Samuel Johnson
- Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things; they can make paupers or make kings. ~ Sidney Madwed
- Those that are little, little things suit. ~ Horace
- To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
- True greatness consists in being great in little things. ~ Charles Simmons
- We cannot do great things. We can only do little things with great love. ~ Mother Teresa
- We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to. ~ Goethe
- What we call little things are merely the causes of great things. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
- Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people’s characters. ~ Margaret Halsey
- While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things. ~ St. Francis De Sales
- Why not learn to enjoy the little things — there are so many of them. ~ Author Unknown
