“The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.”
“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
“Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.”
“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.”
“It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness -- calling their denial knowledge.”
“As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown...”
“Inches make champions.”
“Inch by inch, it's a cinch.”
“Little by little does the trick.”
“A small leak can sink a great ship”
“A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.”
“I feel like a micro cog in a macrocosm”
“Those that are little, little things suit.”
“Nothing can be done except little by little.”
“My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.”
“All good work is done the way ants do things, little by little.”
“There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.”
“There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.”
“We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love.”
“You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.”
“For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.”
“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”
“Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.”
“If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.”
“Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.”
“I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”
“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
“What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.”
“It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.”
“Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.”