Small Quotes
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"Instead of a Lemonade Stand, I should open up a “You know what I can’t stand?” Stand. I’ll sell rants in small, medium, and large."
"...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church."
"For the newborn and wise, everything begins small."
"It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young.No he isn't, thought Ender. Small, yes. Bur Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending on him and on the soldiers that he led. and he performed splendidly, and the won. There's no youth in that. No childhood."
"No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have."
"The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"A house is never small or empty, when filled with love."
"That thing you thought you'd doYou start to think you can't;You always say tomorrow,But you haven't got a plan.Everyone's asking questions,And all you do is dodge.That career that you'd imaginedWas only a mirage.The older that you get,The smaller that you feel;You forget what's only in your head,And what is really real.Sometimes people make it;They become who they meant to be.But most of the time,Dreamers only dream."
"Big or small, sin is sin!"
"Your goal must be divided into smallest measurable and visible period of time- a day, so you know exactly what to do everyday"
"God’s genius is as wide as the cosmos, while by comparison our intelligence can find room on the head of a pin."
"There is a secret a person with great knowledge discovers along the path to truth. That is, the more doors you open to the mysteries, the smaller you feel. And because you begin to feel smaller and smaller until your ego disappears, the more humble you become. Therefore, any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"It is a fact of life that when you are small, people expect little things from you. But when you've done a great thing, people are amazed."
"Love is illiterate. Whether we write it big or small, we cannot read it. We might only guess. ( "I seek you" )"
"the Z-particle Pure energy—no mass at all. It may well be thesmallest building block in nature. Matter is nothing but trapped energy."
"Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck."
"Whether you dream big or dream small, chances are your dream will come true if you believe in it and really work on it."
"When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things."
"Never be intimidated by what seems ominous, for BiG is only an accumulation of many smalls."
"Each year, more responsibility and freedom (they are companions) must be given to the child so that the final release in early adulthood is merely a small, final release of authority."
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
"A man's heart is small, but it is surrounded by the immensity of its soul. Sometimes our words may appear silent, but they are certainly heading for infinity."
"You don’t need a huge number of people with little passions to get a good job done. You rather need few people with huge passion."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"Leaders get to tall heights by taking short steps. Being faithful, diligent and consistent with little steps is the secret to mounting greater heights."
"Everyone has a kind of limitation respectively. Leaders don’t allow their own to obscure them in a small corner."
"At the age of 46 I was starting to see the appearance of rainbow halos and starbursts around bright nighttime lights, problems reading small print, focusing issues with my eyes, and image recognition issues. I had been exposed to bright high powered 20 watt scattered sodium LASER light a decade earlier in very high altitude astronomy."
"The famous split windowSplits had the KDF dash until 1953, which had two glove compartments. Note rear “w” bonnet and small round taillights. There were no indicators like today’s cars – just pop-up indicators that work with an electric servo, called ‘trafficators’ or ‘semaphores’. 6v electrics. Small, flat front windscreen."
"Cut anyone and everyone out of your life that makes you feel small, hurt, humiliated, stupid, worthless, etc. do it swiftly and violently and without remorse."
"An oak tree is just a small nut that persevered against the taunts of doubt and fear."
"Dream high, beyond the sky; no matter wings so small, keep vision bright; just dare to learn, for you are born to fly."
"A small mind can never have a big result, for whatever you cannot see, you cannot have"
"Loud actions, small people, loud voice, small mouths, loud world, small minds."
"Life never goes according to plan. That's okay, because often our plans are much smaller than life intends. Probably EASIER, but smaller."
"Don't fight your thoughts. Allow them to come, but don’t cling to them. The small gaps between thoughts create the power in meditation."
"Embrace the power of little things and you will build a tower of mighty things. Mighty things are made up varieties of little things put together!"
"You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind."
"Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve."
"A little deed done very well is better than a mighty plan kept on paper, undone. Wishes don't change the world; it's actions that do this business!"
"Beware of your gifts; they may appear as tiny as seeds but at the end, they’ll gain roots to bear fruits to feed the world if only you will desire to water them regularly!"
"There is no magic in small plans. When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ nor of His will for my life."
"It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"The great opportunity you are daring to get may not come at once. But it is possible that this opportunity is hidden in the tiny ones you neglect every day."
"Never abbreviate your dreams. Only short-hand people always do that. Their punishment is that they can't stretch far, further and forward into the future. Dream only big dreams!"
"No question, no problem, no concern, is too big or too small for God to handle!"
"...as we are endowed. ...with rhetorics. ...none will deny. ...of innocence. ...towards scribbling. ...of love lines. ...and of lust. ...to what seems like male. ...to what seems like female. ...in those days. ...I mean nothing. ...but in high school.....even me. ...I can't deny."
"We all have visions both great and small"
"I have one dream: I want to get my jet pilot license, and take my jet to 40 000 feet, look down, and realise how small we are. Not for the kick of the G's but just to get the feeling of just for once flying above humanity."
"It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground."
"We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability, we innately know we should be living greater than that, and it creates a disconnect inside that leads us to feeling empty, unhappy, maybe even depressed."
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
"What we don't often realize is that the rebirth and collapse of grand things do not begin with grand things at all, like the things we see, but with the small, like the things we are - in the things we do - in the things we say."
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