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"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
-- Vincent Van Gogh

"No person can be lost by following the simple and well-beaten path of ordinary devotion and prayer."
-- R.H. Benson, English author

"Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily."
-- Johann Schiller, poet and historian

"Our job is not to set things right but to see them right."
-- Eric Butterworth

"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 Bell

"Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships."
-- M. Russell Ballard

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."
-- Charles "Tremendous" Jones, motivational speaker and author

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out."
-- Art Linkletter

"'Think simple' as my old master used to say. Reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principle."
-- Frank Lloyd Wright, architect

"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony."
-- William Henry Channing (1810-1884), American Unitarian clergyman, writer and philosopher

"Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not."
-- Sue Grafton

"Two things are written in stone
1. Kindness in another's troubles.
2. Courage in your own."
-- Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australian bush poet

"We can do no great things, only small things with great love."
-- Mother Teresa

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component."
-- Richard Russo, author

"When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way you will command the attention of the world."
-- George Washington Carver (Scientist)

"You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things; to compete. You can be just an ordinary person, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. The intense effort, the giving of everything you've got, is a very pleasant side effect"
-- Sir Edmond Hillary, adventurer

"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. Simplify, simplify."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us."
-- Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), English novelist

"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."
-- Eleonora Duse

"The next time it begins to rain... lie down on your belly, nestle your chin into the grass, and get a frog's-eye view of how raindrops fall... The sight of hundreds of blades of grass bowing down and popping back up like piano keys strikes me as one of the merriest sights in the world."
-- Malcolm Margolin

"Talk about it only enough to do it.
Dream about it only enough to feel it.
Think about it only enough to understand it.
Contemplate it only enough to be it."

-- Jean Toomer (1894-1967) American Poet

"If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not- you just need to do it."
-- Stanley Tucci

"If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing, you might find you're missing all the rest."
-- Dave Matthews  [more great quotes]

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope."
-- Sir Winston Churchill

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
-- Mother Teresa

"Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, lies the danger that we shall do nothing."
-- Adolph Monod (1802-1856)Reformed pastor and theologian

"Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise."
-- Alma the Younger (Book of Mormon) Alma 37:6

"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
-- Confucius