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Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity. — Barry Goldwater

Packing lunches and going over menus is a great way to make small changes in the way your kids eat. — Marcus Samuelsson

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city. — Leon Battista Alberti

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

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful. — Mother Teresa

We all have visions both great and small — Sunday Adelaja

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. — Malcolm Muggeridge

For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies. — Saint Francis De Sales

Great achievements are nothing more than a collection of small accomplishments. — Justin Young

Turn towards great and serious subjects, next to which irony becomes small and helpless. — Rainer Maria Rilke

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much. — Jawaharlal Nehru

He only is truly great, who hath great charity. He is truly great who deemeth himself small, and counteth all height of honour as nothing. — Thomas A Kempis

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. — Fran Lebowitz

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through. — Francis Bacon

So let them pass, small people of no great significance, caught up and swept together like dead leaves in the great whirlwind of the war. — Nevil Shute

Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller. — Jean De La Bruyere

You are so great, and I am so small,
I hardly can think of you, World, at all — William Brighty Rands

If one were to protest all the injustices of life," says Sigrud, "great and small, one would have no time for living. — Robert Jackson Bennett

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. — Luc De Clapiers

We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience. — Bill W.

And remember, small thaws make great floods, so be twice wary of a slowly changing season. — Patrick Rothfuss

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. — Adolphe Monod

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. — Lao-Tzu

Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names. — Horace

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage ... — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

There is no great and no small
To the Soul that maketh all:
And where it cometh, all things are
And it cometh everywhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut. — Ruth Reichl

The joy you feel when you become a small life particle sun and share its brightness and warmth with those around you is indescribably great. — Ilchi Lee

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order. — Madeleine L'Engle

The small Satan left and the great Satan came. — Muqtada Al Sadr

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. — James George Frazer

Small miracles begin in the mind,
big miracles begin in the heart,
and great miracles begin in the soul. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small. — Myles Munroe

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas. — Diane Setterfield

I must say ... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand. — Oscar Wilde

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

it seemed a great wonder that the world, which was so large, could sometimes feel so small and empty. — Norton Juster

I was born and grew up in Palm Springs. It's a great place to grow up, a real small town. — Alia Shawkat

Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace. — John Bunyan

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. — James Baldwin

When we abandon all to Him, He takes a tender care of us, and His Providence for us is great or small according to the measure of our abandonment. — Francis De Sales

So far as it goes, a small thing may give analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge. — Titus Lucretius Carus

EARTH comprises distances, great and small; danger and security; open ground and narrow passes; the chances of life and death. — Sun Tzu

It was about then that the effects of great wealth and a small gene pool started to spell their doom. — Jonathan L. Howard

Great learning and superior abilities ... will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them. — Abigail Adams

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed. — Idries Shah

What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all. — John Wolcot

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present. — Iris Murdoch

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It was awkward; our debt was too great and the words thank you too small, and — Ransom Riggs

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens. — Fran Drescher

Do the small things with a great and a clean heart, even out of your least, and you never did a small thing at all, for the heart defines it all! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A little here and a little there will always accumulate, so why be surprised when steady, small steps take you to great places? — Richelle E. Goodrich

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted. — David Fincher

Consistency is the virtue of small minds, and Spinoza had a great mind - he was inconsistent all over the place. — Jim Holt

A great many men
some comparatively small men now
if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task. — Paul Gauguin

All creatures are great and small. — Willard Wigan

But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all. — Phoebe Cary

And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring about great things - 1 Nephi 16:29 — Joseph Smith Jr.

There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Be faithful in the little things, for in them our strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small. — Mother Teresa

Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear. — Horace

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. — Carl Sagan

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. — Jean De La Bruyere

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things. — Miguel De Cervantes

Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small. — Phoebe Cary

The small pulse of the life within me, and the great heart of the city around me, seemed to be sinking in unison. — Wilkie Collins

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. — William Shakespeare

Let us toast to good things about bad times, to old friends and new enemies, to great tragedies and small pleasures! — P.M. Steffen

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant. — Maria Montessori

Small minds are usually overcome by misfortune and despair but great minds will try and rise above them each time! — Timothy Pina

Great minds find beauties and appreciate it. Average minds find commonalities and compare. Small minds find the problems and criticize. — Debasish Mridha

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions. — E.B. White

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. — Helen Keller

Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times. — Karen Mills

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder. — Kevin Pollak

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul. — G. M. Trevelyan

He was at once to great and too small for love. — W. Somerset Maugham

But a note had had been prepared and left for her, written in the very style to touch
a small mixture of reproach with a great deal of kindness — Jane Austen

Our debt was too great and the words thank you too small. — Ransom Riggs

Absense diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind. — Charlotte M. Mason

God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things. — Pope Francis

These are the pieces of my youth,
the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations
that defined my coming of age. — Tablo

Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I'd always thought there was a great divide between a spirit and a ghost- I just didn't realize how small the gap was between the dead and the living — Jodi Picoult

Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones. — Honore De Balzac

It is unfortunate, that many in positions of leadership, both great and small, have been found guilty of such practices — Anonymous

There is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great. — Oliver Heaviside

And meanwhile death was as terrible in a small man as in a great one: — Nikolai Gogol

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters. — Winston Churchill

First achieve small things and you will achieve great things ultimately... and no one will forget. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it. — Robert Browning

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great — Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord. — Arthur W. Pink

Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised. — Kathleen Raine

There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy. — Mavis Staples

Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses. — Amit Ray