Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Theodore Roosevelt

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Steven Wright

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
Steven Wright

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.
Helen Keller

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
Erma Bombeck

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
W. C. Fields

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
Jim Rohn

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
Lou Holtz

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

Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais Nin

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao Tzu

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.
Lao Tzu

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao Tzu

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Lao Tzu

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
Lao Tzu

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Ernest Hemingway