A Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee
American - Author
February 22, 1820 - January 18, 1904

The secret of pleasure in life, as distinct from its great triumphs of transcendent joy, is to live in a series of small, legitimate successes. By legitimate I mean such as are not accompanied by self-condemnation.

Sydney Thompson Dobell

You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive.

Meg Whitman

I have long been an advocate of starting an IoT journey with a small, low-risk project that can produce immediate benefits. But don't confuse small with non-strategic. Align each project, no matter how small, into your larger strategic vision.

Maciej Kranz

I'm a small filmmaker, making my small, low-budget movies, but I'm super lucky to know that everybody reacts differently to my movies. That's interesting.

Quentin Dupieux

It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.

Mahatma Gandhi

One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

Albert Camus

Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is

Laini Taylor

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

Alexandra David-Neel

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

Thomas Carlyle

Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their being. But there is no need! This smallness is your own imposition upon your freedom, upon your unlimited possibilities, upon your unlimited potential.

Rajneesh

I'm motivated by very small successes.

Beth Brooke

It is important to recognize the small successes.

Rafael Nadal

When I was a small child, I began on small mountains. Now, as I am getting older, the small peaks are getting bigger. If I am lucky, some day I will end on a small peak.

Reinhold Messner

Low ceilings, low doors. I hate that. Oh my God, it's the worst. This world is too small for me.

Kristaps Porzingis

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.