A Quote by Doris Lessing

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing
English - Novelist
October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013

Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.

Carl Maria von Weber

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

Mahatma Gandhi

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

Oliver Goldsmith

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

Aristotle

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.

Brother Lawrence

Trifles, trifles are what matter!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

Richard Burton

I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

Babe Paley

Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.

Mahatma Gandhi

Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects —hardly recognisable domestic utensils, ornaments and personal trifles — made of glass, of clay, of discoloured bronze and other time-blurred substances. 'It seems cruel,' she said, 'that after a while nothing matters... any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: "Use unknown".'

Edith Wharton

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

Matt Damon

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

Aristotle

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.