Small Quotes

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
Christopher Morley

Mind, Child, Effort

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.
John H. Johnson

Dreams, Confidence, Big

I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.
John Boehner

Great, Business, Dad

And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.
George W. Bush

Two, Understand, Fact

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
Charles Baudelaire

Life, Heart, Feelings

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.
Jerry Seinfeld

Someone, Whole, Task

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier

Success, Efforts, Sum

There are no small accidents on this circuit.
Ayrton Senna

Accidents, Circuit

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

Great, Reality, Gift

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
Bill Rancic

Courage, Business, Successful

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

Success, Kindness, Act

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I'm in a small way quite proud of some of it - I only wish I'd done more.
Christopher Hitchens

Done, Wish, Proud

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.
Christopher Hitchens

Growing, Joined, Sect

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozol

Win, Enough, Big

I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.
Chris LeDoux

Find, Before, Joy

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Bill Vaughan

Fun, Old, Child

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.
Morgan Freeman

Good, Living, Acting

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
Quentin Tarantino

Film, Room, Dogs

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
Jimmy Breslin

Nothing, Number, Rule

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
Tom Stoppard

Writing, Getting, Felt

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
Dean Koontz

Love, Great, Hope

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
Fred Allen

Life, Success, Actor

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
Ralph Ransom

Life, Time, Done

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Life, Greater, Courtesies

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
Bryant H. McGill

Stand, Meaningful, Grand

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don't cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That's going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.
Michelle Obama

Time, Money, Parents

Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.
David Attenborough

Hell, Getting, Beyond

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Norman Mailer

Winning, Honor, Gain

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Important, Republican, United

I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
Adam Sandler

Friends, Play, Around

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