Quotes about Great and Small

Great and small suffer the same mishaps. Votes: 3

The small Satan left and the great Satan came. Votes: 2

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small. Votes: 2

There are two types of men: the great and the small. Votes: 2

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted. Votes: 2

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. Votes: 2

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. Votes: 2

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city. Votes: 2

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. Votes: 2

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. Votes: 2

The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s. Votes: 2

Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times. Votes: 2

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. Votes: 2

The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great. Votes: 2

I was born and grew up in Palm Springs. It's a great place to grow up, a real small town. Votes: 2

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small. Votes: 2

Packing lunches and going over menus is a great way to make small changes in the way your kids eat. Votes: 2

Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories. Votes: 2

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. Votes: 2

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. Votes: 2

I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're like. They are in love with language. They're obsessed with it. Even if their thoughts aren't more special than anybody else's, they have a way of putting them into words that makes them sensational. Votes: 2

Great things have small beginnings. Votes: 0

Many small make a great. Votes: 0

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects. Votes: 0

Small crimes always precedes great ones. Votes: 0

All great things have small beginnings. Votes: 0

Small opportunities often presage great enterprises. Votes: 0

Great minds explore,Small minds learn Votes: 0

Do great in the small things. Votes: 0

The great fish eat the small. Votes: 0

Small facts lead to great knowing. Votes: 0

Great issues develop from small beginnings. Votes: 0

All creatures are great and small. Votes: 0

I'm not great at small talk. Votes: 0

Small sorrows speak great ones are silent. Votes: 0

Small minds can never handle great themes. Votes: 0

We grow small trying to be great. Votes: 0

America is too great for small dreams. Votes: 0

A small unkindness is a great offence. Votes: 0

Sometimes small things lead to great joys. Votes: 0

Great changes are easier than small ones. Votes: 0

Nothing GREAT ever happens from thinking SMALL. Votes: 0

Do not let great ambitions overshadow small success. Votes: 0

Every good thing great and small needs defense Votes: 0

There's no great loss without some small gain. Votes: 0

Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown. Votes: 0

Great results, can be achieved with small forces. Votes: 0

Small projects need much more help than great. Votes: 0

Many great actions are committed in small struggles. Votes: 0

America is to great to dream small dreams. Votes: 0

There are no small steps in great affairs. Votes: 0

From a small spark, Great flame has risen. Votes: 0

Great acts are made up of small deeds. Votes: 0

Great acts are made up of small deeds. Votes: 0

A small rock holds back a great wave. Votes: 0

a small spark can start a great fire Votes: 0

That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it. Votes: 0

How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result. Votes: 0

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. Votes: 0

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. Votes: 0

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones. Votes: 0

Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great. Votes: 0

Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings. Votes: 0

Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue. Votes: 0

I can do small things in a great way. Votes: 0

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. Votes: 0

There are no small sins against a great God Votes: 0

Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace. Votes: 0

Sorrow is too great to exist in small hearts. Votes: 0

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag. Votes: 0

Great men are sometimes so even in small things. Votes: 0

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. Votes: 0

I know many great actors who have small heads. Votes: 0

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. Votes: 0

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones. Votes: 0

I will be small in small things, great among great. Votes: 0

Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities. Votes: 0

Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures. Votes: 0

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small. Votes: 0

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. Votes: 0

Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny. Votes: 0

Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service. Votes: 0

Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses. Votes: 0

The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories. Votes: 0

Small things done with great love will change the world. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. Votes: 0

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. Votes: 0

You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great! Votes: 0

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. Votes: 0

A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy. Votes: 0

You become great by going small thing in a great way. Votes: 0

Challenge doesn't come to small people. Challenge comes to great people. Votes: 0

Dont pretend to be that small, you are not that great! Votes: 0

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. Votes: 0

We can do no great things-only small things with great love. Votes: 0

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation. Votes: 0

The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great. Votes: 0

For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse. Votes: 0

For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires. Votes: 0

I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity. Votes: 0

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. Votes: 0

He is invited to do great things who receives small things greatly. Votes: 0

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Votes: 0

Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay. Votes: 0

Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller. Votes: 0

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. Votes: 0

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Votes: 0

When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. Votes: 0

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal. Votes: 0

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. Votes: 0

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Votes: 0

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps. Votes: 0

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. Votes: 0

Our debt was too great and the words thank you too small. Votes: 0

I don't do great things. I do small things with great love. Votes: 0

Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor! Votes: 0

You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great. Votes: 0

There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love Votes: 0

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. Votes: 0

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. Votes: 0

For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls Votes: 0

Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one. Votes: 0

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. Votes: 0

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. Votes: 0

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small. Votes: 0

The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show. Votes: 0

You may be capable of great things, But life consists of small things. Votes: 0

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led. Votes: 0

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. Votes: 0

There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all. Votes: 0

Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes. Votes: 0

Life is a chain of small sorrows that lead to a great joy Votes: 0

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man. Votes: 0

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power. Votes: 0

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many. Votes: 0

The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one. Votes: 0

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Votes: 0

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part. Votes: 0

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord. Votes: 0

Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care. Votes: 0

Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace. Votes: 0

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Votes: 0

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life. Votes: 0

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions. Votes: 0

Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great. Votes: 0

'O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.' Votes: 0

Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe. Votes: 0

Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions. Votes: 0

Im all about small towns. I think its a great place to grow up. Votes: 0

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Votes: 0

Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection. Votes: 0

I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up. Votes: 0

There is no great; there is no small; in the mind that causeth all Votes: 0

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love Votes: 0

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. Votes: 0

In everything both great and small, We see the Hand of God in all. Votes: 0

It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one. Votes: 0

No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is. Votes: 0

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others. Votes: 0

Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great. Votes: 0

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great Votes: 0

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being. Votes: 0

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great. Votes: 0

Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries. Votes: 0

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part. Votes: 0

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters. Votes: 0

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things. Votes: 0

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. Votes: 0

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. Votes: 0

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. Votes: 0

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day. Votes: 0

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents. Votes: 0

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. Votes: 0

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity... Votes: 0

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time. Votes: 0

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. Votes: 0

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great? Votes: 0

When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small. Votes: 0

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way Votes: 0

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great? Votes: 0

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great. Votes: 0

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. Votes: 0

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around. Votes: 0

Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects. Votes: 0

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around. Votes: 0

Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom. Votes: 0

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine." Votes: 0

Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great Votes: 0

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain. Votes: 0

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything. Votes: 0

The great thing about having a small family is that there are fewer people to disappoint. Votes: 0

If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small. Votes: 0

The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.] Votes: 0

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing. Votes: 0

It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air. Votes: 0

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments. Votes: 0

There's love, sweet love, for one and all-- For love is best for great and small. Votes: 0

Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter. Votes: 0

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. Votes: 0

I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence. Votes: 0

Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love. Votes: 0

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it. Votes: 0

The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around. Votes: 0

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present. Votes: 0

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville. Votes: 0

The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small. Votes: 0

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones? Votes: 0

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness. Votes: 0

Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised. Votes: 0

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally. Votes: 0

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. Votes: 0

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool. Votes: 0

God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things. Votes: 0

Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together. Votes: 0

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. Votes: 0

What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all. Votes: 0

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. Votes: 0

Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will. Votes: 0

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. Votes: 0

Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord. Votes: 0

The Land of Israel will be small, but the people of Israel will make it great. Not Votes: 0

Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names. Votes: 0

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world. Votes: 0

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all. Votes: 0

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. Votes: 0

And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring about great things" - 1 Nephi 16:29 Votes: 0

You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning. Votes: 0

Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great. Votes: 0

Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time. Votes: 0

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate. Votes: 0

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise. Votes: 0

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. Votes: 0

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small. Votes: 0

Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day. Votes: 0

There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy. Votes: 0

To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all! Votes: 0

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. Votes: 0

Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. Votes: 0

Better to have small faith in a great God than to have great faith in a small god. Votes: 0

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. Votes: 0

God will always do great things with people who are willing to be faithful in the small things. Votes: 0

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. Votes: 0

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great. Votes: 0

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all. Votes: 0

Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else. Votes: 0

Most people hate successful people for their small little faults rather than appreciating them for their great strengths. Votes: 0

you are so great, and I am so small, I hardly can think of you, World, at all Votes: 0

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones. Votes: 0

A great many men--some comparatively small men now--if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses. Votes: 0

I've got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They're there for me every time. Votes: 0

It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part. Votes: 0

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets. Votes: 0

God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community. Votes: 0

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. Votes: 0

Reimbursement may be sometimes small, but then great ability can never be measured by the tickets at the gate. Votes: 0

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. Votes: 0

Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones. Votes: 0

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. Votes: 0

The small and simple things you choose to do today will be magnified into great and glorious blessings tomorrow. Votes: 0

I've got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They're there for me every time. Votes: 0

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them. Votes: 0

A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones. Votes: 0

Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind. Votes: 0

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens. Votes: 0

Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind. Votes: 0

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order. Votes: 0

The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head. Votes: 0

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them. Votes: 0

Don't try to do great thing, but don't forget to do small things with great care and great love. Votes: 0

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. Votes: 0

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it. Votes: 0

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Votes: 0

Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great Votes: 0

Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships. Votes: 0

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! Votes: 0

The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed Votes: 0

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age. Votes: 0

My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small. Votes: 0

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough. Votes: 0

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. Votes: 0

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. Votes: 0

Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives. Votes: 0

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past. Votes: 0

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection Votes: 0

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing. Votes: 0

Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day. Votes: 0

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness. Votes: 0

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection. Votes: 0

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives Votes: 0

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed. Votes: 0

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage ... Votes: 0

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones. Votes: 0

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. Votes: 0

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand. Votes: 0

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth. Votes: 0

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth. Votes: 0

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. Votes: 0

I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie. Votes: 0

There was so much great music around in the 60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam. Votes: 0

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are. Votes: 0

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. Votes: 0

I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut. Votes: 0

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all. Votes: 0

To love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small ones. Votes: 0

I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors. Votes: 0

A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong Votes: 0

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances. Votes: 0

Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure. Votes: 0

Take a risk a day - one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it. Votes: 0

When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers. Votes: 0

For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities. Votes: 0

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small. Votes: 0

Walk patiently through this troubled world, and you will find great treasure. Even though your house may be small, look within it! Votes: 0

There was so much great music around in the '60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam. Votes: 0

Begin to do small things in a great way...You must put the whole power of your great soul into every act. Votes: 0

My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web. Votes: 0

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love. Votes: 0

A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done. Votes: 0

A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife. Votes: 0

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. Votes: 0

...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great. Votes: 0

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward. Votes: 0

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder. Votes: 0

The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players. Votes: 0

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small. Votes: 0

A little here and a little there will always accumulate, so why be surprised when steady, small steps take you to great places? Votes: 0

The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way. Votes: 0

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them. Votes: 0

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. Votes: 0

Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes. Votes: 0

First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others. Votes: 0

It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people. Votes: 0

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top. Votes: 0

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love. Votes: 0

We spend a great deal of our energy making sure that small businesses have help in navigating to the outcomes that they want. Votes: 0

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds? Votes: 0

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. Votes: 0

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top. Votes: 0

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. Votes: 0

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either. Votes: 0

We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something. Votes: 0

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great. Votes: 0

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. Votes: 0

Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small. Votes: 0

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it. Votes: 0

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. Votes: 0

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things. Votes: 0

I would rather have a small part in a really great movie than a big one in one that I'm not too psyched about. Votes: 0

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. Votes: 0

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. Votes: 0

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are! Votes: 0

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity. Votes: 0

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In the marketplace, small businesses are the face and voice of humanity, which provides them with a great advantage in the Age of the Customer. Votes: 0

Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention. Votes: 0

For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies. Votes: 0

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas. Votes: 0

Perhaps her requirements were too great,Or her indulgence for human weakness too small,For her attempts to form a friendship had alwaysEnded in disappointment. Votes: 0

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant. Votes: 0

I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories. Votes: 0

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. Votes: 0

Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear. Votes: 0

One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by a small minority. Votes: 0

I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments. Votes: 0

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger. Votes: 0

But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all. Votes: 0

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones. Votes: 0

God in his goodness sent the grapes To cheer both great and small; Little fools will drink too much And great fools none at all! Votes: 0

Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake. Votes: 0

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small. Votes: 0

God's message extends beyond borders. Anyone in the world can learn to forgive those who have injured them, however great or small that injury may be. Votes: 0

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages. Votes: 0

I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches. Votes: 0

Be not weary in well-doing. … Out of small things proceedeth that which is great. Behold, the Lord requireth the heart and a willing mind. Votes: 0

I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good. Votes: 0

Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum. Votes: 0

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great. Votes: 0

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them. Votes: 0

We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them. Votes: 0

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing. Votes: 0

How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! Votes: 0

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable. Votes: 0

Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world.Yeah, I know there are more important things.But don't forget to remember me. Votes: 0

In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion. Votes: 0

There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him. Votes: 0

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. Votes: 0

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable. Votes: 0

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful. Votes: 0

Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude. Votes: 0

How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention. Votes: 0

Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments. Votes: 0

In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal contact was great. Votes: 0

Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater. Votes: 0

It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have. Votes: 0

It is true that there is nothing too great for God's power; and it is just as true that there is nothing too small for His love. Votes: 0

Most people think small because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage. Votes: 0

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous. Votes: 0

The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality. Votes: 0

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. Votes: 0

There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall! Votes: 0

Maybe you have thought that doing... little kindnesses doesn't make much difference, but as Alma said, "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass." Votes: 0

Arrested Development' is great; Mitch Hurwitz is great. Plus, it's the one show I've ever had where, on the small parts, he just let me cast people. Votes: 0

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Votes: 0

To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default. Votes: 0

The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God. Votes: 0

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. Votes: 0

Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself in that light. Votes: 0

It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous. Votes: 0

The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment. Votes: 0

It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous. Votes: 0

Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God. Votes: 0

Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God. Votes: 0

Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves. Votes: 0

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world. Votes: 0

Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small. Votes: 0

The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment. Votes: 0

Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small. Votes: 0

A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous. Votes: 0

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. Votes: 0

Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while. Votes: 0

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice... and justice is the spirit of God. Votes: 0

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw. Votes: 0

We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience. Votes: 0

If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate. Votes: 0

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing. Votes: 0

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul. Votes: 0

We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly. Votes: 0

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession. Votes: 0

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Votes: 0

The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law. Votes: 0

I am so small I can hardly be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things. Votes: 0

Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God. Votes: 0

When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced. Votes: 0

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness. Votes: 0

The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe. Votes: 0

Be faithful in the little things, for in them our strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small. Votes: 0

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. Votes: 0

The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations Votes: 0

We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self. Votes: 0

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs. Votes: 0

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us. Votes: 0

Great truths always dwell a long time with small minorities, and the real voice of God is often that which rises above the masses, not that which follows them. Votes: 0

When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief. Votes: 0

Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small. Votes: 0

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet. Votes: 0

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes. Votes: 0

There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea. Votes: 0

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Votes: 0

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Votes: 0

Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere. Votes: 0

...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes. Votes: 0

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well prepared by labour, both conscious and subconscious. Votes: 0

We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one. Votes: 0