Smallest Quotes

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia

Life, Power, Smile

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein

Science, Greatest, Facts

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda

Success, Mind, Heart

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand

Political, Away, Vote

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

Cannot, Earth, Rights

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Her, She

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David Thoreau

Faith, Happiness, Seed

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
George Bernard Shaw

Moment, Leave, Opinions

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler

Best, Liar, Makes

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
Ayn Rand

Mind, Everything, Religious

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
Marcus Aurelius

Success, Forward, Matter

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
Keri Russell

Life, Change, Sometimes

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Charles Darwin

Special, Wish, Whole

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Leonardo da Vinci

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Head, Hide, Hole

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
John Burroughs

Greatest, Deed, Intention

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Honore de Balzac

Life, Great, Thought

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Samuel Butler

Time, Same, Knew

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
Horace

Water, Act, Foolish

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?
Richard Dawkins

True, Said, Makes

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Francis Bacon

God, Greatest, Hangs

Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.
Ross Perot

Dreams, Reality, Everything

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
Friedrich Schiller

Happy, Room, Loving

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
Nora Ephron

Health, Important, Enough

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
Giorgio Armani

Create, Mindset, Focused

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
William Hazlitt

Pain, Concern, Fellow

The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick

Greatest, Nations, Gangsters

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
William Hazlitt

Person, Regret, Pleasure

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.
William Shatner

Life, Whole, Tree

I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me.
Max Reger

Before, Moment, House

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