Small Quotes

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

~ Winston Churchill

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

~ Blaise Pascal

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

~ Demosthenes

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

~ Fran Lebowitz

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

~ Lao Tzu

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

~ Phillips Brooks

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

~ Zhuangzi

We grow small trying to be great.

~ E. Stanley Jones

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

~ Steven Wright

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors.

~ Dick Durbin

Under the cover of encryption, terror masterminds provide recruits with the tactics and tools necessary to carry out attacks using small arms and explosives. None of this requires any overseas travel.

~ Tom Cotton

At some point, the government expands into the private sphere so far that you live in a place with a whole lot less freedom. I didn't like that that was the direction of travel for our country, and decided to come to Washington to try and be a small part of bringing it back.

~ Mike Pompeo

My first experiences of Colorado travel have been rather severe. At Greeley, I got a small upstairs room at first, but gave it up to a married couple with a child, and then had one downstairs no bigger than a cabin, with only a canvas partition. It was very hot, and every place was thick with black flies.

~ Isabella Bird

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

~ Aneurin Bevan

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.

~ Jennifer Granholm

I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.

~ Kevin Plank

I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.

~ John Mackey

Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.

~ Daniel Goleman

You think back and you ask yourself why you became so interested in wolves. I think it was because when I was very small, growing up in a little hamlet near Shap, we would go to Lowther Wildlife Park for birthday parties. Now closed, it was only three miles from my parents' house.

~ Sarah Hall

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

~ James Cameron

I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do a lot. I started in the theater, then I went to stand-up comedy, and then when I went into the movies to do comedy and drama and big movies and small movies.

~ Denis Leary

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.

~ Morgan Freeman

As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with its towering skyscrapers, fascinating people and teeming energy absolutely captivated me.

~ Robert Osborne

I was dirt-poor. I could barely hold down a job. Eventually, though, I started getting small parts on shows like 'Smallville,' 'Supernatural'... and lots of really bad sci-fi movies. I was running around the woods in wolf contacts, covered in fake blood made out of pancake syrup, roaring.

~ Cory Monteith

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.

~ Trieste Kelly Dunn

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

~ Fidel Castro

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

~ George Sand

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus' love.

~ Charles Spurgeon

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

~ Rem Koolhaas

As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread.

~ Jim Lee

A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.

~ Jonathan Ive

My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?

~ Peter Diamandis

There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the small shops, production offices and design studios close down, and hey presto, we have another fashionable London suburb indistinguishable from the rest.

~ Howard Jacobson

I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left.

~ Jonathan Ive

When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.

~ Nate Berkus

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

~ Eminem