A Quote by Confucius

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Confucius

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Confucius
Chinese - Philosopher
551 BC - 479 BC

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Wilson Mizner

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.

Confucius

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

I found there are a lot of advantages to being on a small budget and having a small crew. You get some very intimate performances and naturalistic cinematography.

Gareth Edwards

You can find advantages to being small.

John Stockton

Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.

Og Mandino

one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

Dervla Murphy

There are no small steps in great affairs.

Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.

Laozi

Decision-making power, whether it's on foreign affairs or domestic affairs, is concentrated in the White House in a reasonably small circle.

David Brooks

Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day.

Jim Rohn

If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.

Stephen Covey

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.