Large Things Quotes

• Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can't get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

  Joyce Meyer

  Goal, Focus, Important

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• Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Graduation

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Tragedy, His Love

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• Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never!

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Giving, Never Give In

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• But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.

  Frank Bidart

  Book, Giving, Meals

  Frank Bidart (2002). “Music Like Dirt”, p.14, Sarabande Books

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• When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a strong economic base. With women participating in building this economic base, it becomes the foundation for better social and economic future.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Strong, Foundation, Tiny Things

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• I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things, like the particles in atoms, or very large things, like the universe, seem to be running into one queerness after another, from puzzle to puzzle.

  Lewis Thomas

  Running, Knowledge, Science

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• Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

  Solon

  Fall, Law, Break Through

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• It was the second time that day that I stood looking at a space where a large thing wasn't where it was supposed to be.

  Craig Johnson

  Space, Supposed To Be

  Craig Johnson (2007). “Death Without Company: A Walt Longmire Mystery”, p.147, Penguin

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• It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and niggling, and that the large things one overlooks often cause problems.

  Neil Gaiman

  Causes, Problem, Easy

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

  Booker T. Washington

  Success, Attention, Life Is

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• I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.

  William Saroyan

  Clever, War, Men

  William Saroyan (1936). “Inhale & exhale”, Books for Libraries

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