What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

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.

It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.

There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend.

You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

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

I feel like a micro cog in a macrocosm

If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.

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.

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

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Inches make champions.

We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love.

The thing that goes the farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

If we triumph in the little things of our common hours, we are sure to triumph in our lives.

Someone has calculated that in fifteen minutes a day we can read the Bible through twice in a year's time.

I believe in the total depravity of inanimate things... the elusiveness of soap, the knottiness of strings, the transitory nature of buttons, the inclination of suspenders to twist and of hooks to forsake their lawful eyes, and cleave only unto the hairs of their hapless owner's head.

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.