Top 1200 Small Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I grew up in a small town where you know everyone, .. I've been told all my life that I come from too small a town to compete with some of the guys that competed in a higher level growing up. And that kind of drove me through college and drove me in the minor leagues, because I got to face all those big 5- A [school district] guys in the minors.

There are things that feel so small but are such a big part of life.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.

A small, seemingly inconsequential event can determine a life.

If you hate your life, you haven't' seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't' fit you.

You've got a huge American population, you've got a small, small, small subset that is radicalized, and you have an even smaller subset that actually takes action. And you can't cover everyone who has some contact, someone bad. What you need is offense overseas, defense at home with intelligence and law enforcement, and really deep engagement with these communities.

Only the small things in life are important

I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves

Once you grow up in a routine life, you start looking for funny moments from daily life. I don't know where did I get my sense of humor from but I used to joke on even small things, slowly things fall in place.

What is the purpose of life? To elevate all, big or small.

I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.

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

I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating.

I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.

If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.

The Warrior of the Light concentrates on the small miracles of daily life.

But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!

We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small. We are so small we look at things in a small way. But God, being Almighty, sees everything great. Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you just go sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody-small things-or wash clothes for somebody, or clean the house. Very humble work, that is where you and I must be. For there are many people who can do big things. But there are very few people who will do the small things.

Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.

I guess I love the small things in life.

I'm from a small town where the pace of life is slow.

Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.

I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

... mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement, a mere five-hundredth of a second of that person's life-time. That's a very meager or small extract from a life.

The Warrior tries to enjoy the small everyday things of life.

Most times a person grows up gradually, but I found myself in a hurry... Hoping to find an answer, I uncovered an article about the common goldfish. "Kept in a small bowl, the goldfish will remain small. With more space, the fish will double, triple, or quadruple in size." It occurred to me then that I was intended for larger things. After all, a giant man can't have an ordinary-sized life.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

Seemingly small choices and small actions add up over time.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

My profession is very important but it's a small part of my life.

To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.

Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty. Short is the life we lead, and small our patch of earth.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.

Don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones.

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

I grew up in the small German village of Bosingen, which is located between Black Forest and the state capital of Stuttgart. And when I say small, I mean small. In our village, there were no more than 1,700 people. And we all loved football, but there weren't a lot of places for us boys around town to play in.

From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire will quickly eat up the small pieces but will not become strong enough to attack the large ones. You must supply a scale of sizes from the smallest to the largest. The human eye also will not make its way into a painting or building unless a continuum of shapes leads from the small to the large, from the large to the small.

Don't think small and expect to have a big life.

The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.

While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.

We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.

Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe that one who deeply respects his neighborhood and everyday world in which he lives will be shown the greatest of all worlds.

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.

When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

I'll live a lush life in some small dive.

If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree

Life as such has to be taken as a cosmic joke - and then suddenly you relax because there is nothing to be tense about. And in that very relaxation something starts changing in you - a radical change, a transformation - and the small things of life starts having new meaning, new significance. One learns only one thing, how to rejoice in life.

Evolving our culture to operate and think differently is no small task. We are challenging our employees to be the best of both small and big companies - they should operate with the soul and spirit of a startup, while leveraging the scale, resources and capabilities of Campbell - with the goal of ultimately becoming the biggest small company.

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

I've run several of my own small businesses in my life.

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.