Big Things Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Big dreams turn into big things.

  Meek Mill

  Dream, Bigs, Turns

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

  John Wooden

  Littles, Little Things, Bigs

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The big thing for me is, I never think about myself as a female in business. I'm a person in business.

  Lori Greiner

  Thinking, Female, Bigs

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• No perfume. Because I want to know how you smell - right off the bat. Don't mask it up. I need to know how you smell because I need to know how we connect. A smell is a big thing. Pheromones. Don't cover that.

  Chris D'Elia

  Smell, Bats, Needs

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• With women, you always have to make an educated decision to figure out what they're thinking. It's not one that's necessarily sympathetic, always. Of course, we're all human beings, but the gender thing is big thing. And a great thing.

  Will Oldham

  Thinking, Decision, Gender

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. September 1, 2001.

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• I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

  Douglas Coupland

  Art, Creativity, Kind

  Interview with Michael Stipe and Douglas Coupland, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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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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