Big Things Quotes

• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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• It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Courage

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

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• Big things have small beginnings.

  Michael Fassbender

  Cinema, Bigs, Humble Beginnings

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• Big dreams turn into big things.

  Meek Mill

  Dream, Bigs, Turns

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• Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Big things are accomplished when we master the little things.

  John Wooden

  Littles, Little Things, Bigs

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• It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Wisdom, Past

  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) "Case of Identity"

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• Without water drops, there can be no oceans; without steps, there can be no stairs; without little things, there can be no big things!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Water, Littles

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• If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

  Dale Carnegie

  Perseverance, Determination, Jobs

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• I happened to be in the right place at the right time.

  Calvin Harris

  Good Luck, Ohio, Mcdonalds

  "Calvin Harris Out-Earns Jay Z, Toby Keith As World’s Highest Paid DJ" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2014.

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• Everything that happens to us, good and bad, leaves a lasting impression in our souls. You take one part of that out, and you can completely rewrite something crucial about us. By and large, we're not shaped by the big things. It's the little, day-to-day moments that make us who we are. Who we're going to be. (Nekoda to Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Soul, Lasting Impressions, Littles

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• I was in the right place at the right time.

  Mel Allen

  Photography, Perseverance, Good Luck

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• The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

  Willa Cather

  People, Desire, World

  Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, p.5, U of Nebraska Press

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• Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Littles, Steps, Little Things

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• We're as much influenced by everybody else as they are by us, if they are. It's just all a part of the big thing.

  George Harrison

  Bigs, Ifs

  Source: www.fifthestate.org

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• It's not the big things that add up in the end; it's the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.

  Darren Hardy

  Ordinary, Add, Littles

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

  Mother Teresa

  People, Saint, Serving Others

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.43, New World Library

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• But my big thing was always the blues.

  Luther Allison

  Bigs

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• Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

  Lawrence Dale Bell

  Inspirational, Wrestling, Greatness

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• Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

  Rupert Everett

  Gay, Years, Age

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• We need to heal the environment - that's a big thing - because we messed it up and we have a responsibility to heal and clean up what we have messed up before we think about leaving here. We can't really heal the outer environment on those levels until we heal our families.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Responsibility, Thinking, Leaving

  Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

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• I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things- how we think, what we value- those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone-or any society- determine those for you. ' -Morrie Schwartz

  Mitch Albom

  Running, Mean, Thinking

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.155, Broadway Books

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• Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

  Edith Wharton

  Past, Long, Intellectual

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.7523, Delphi Classics

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