A Quote by Matthew Ashimolowo

The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around.

Matthew Ashimolowo

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Matthew Ashimolowo
Nigerian - Pastor
Born: March 17, 1952

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

Corrie Ten Boom

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

Eckhart Tolle

The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.

Vernon Howard

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else

Joe Abercrombie

I'll always learn something new, usually the small things that people overlook, those small nuances that can make you great.

Cedric Alexander

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

Samuel Beckett

If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.

John C. Maxwell

Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small. The most difficult things in the world must be done while they are easy; the greatest things in the world must be done while they are small.

Laozi

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Barbara Pym

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

Vincent Van Gogh

You may be capable of great things, But life consists of small things.

Ming-Dao Deng

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The difficult things in this world must be done while they are easy, the greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small. For this reason sages never do what is great, and this is why they achieve greatness.