Quotes by Authors - Page 46

Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda
Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.
Anonymous
It was only a sunny smile But it scattered the night And little it cost in the giving Like morning light And made the day worth living.
Anonymous
Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault
The little things are infinitely the most important.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.
William Feather
Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.
Anonymous
You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Alvin Toffler
Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Charles Simmons
One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A harbor even if it is a little harbor is a good thing.... It takes something from the world and has something to give in return.
Sarah Orne Jewett
When Ty Cobb got on first base he had an apparently nervous habit of kicking the bag. ... By kicking the bag hard enough Cobb could move it a full two inches closer to second base. He figured that this improved his chances for a steal or for reaching second base safely on a hit.
Norman Vincent Peale
Yard by yard it's very hard. But inch by inch it's a cinch.
Anonymous
It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now hold your ground and later win a little more.
Louis L'Amour
You don't just luck into things. ... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush
One step and then another and the longest walk is ended. One stitch and then another and the longest rent is mended. One brick upon another and the tallest wall is made. One flake and then another and the deepest snow is laid.
Anonymous
Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.
Bruce Catton
Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
John Lyly
True worth is doing each day some little good not dreaming of great things to do by and by.
Anonymous
If we take care of the moments the years will take care of themselves.
Maria Edgeworth
One thing at a time all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.
J. G. Hubbard
Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.
Mary Caroline Richards
One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time and suddenly all sorts of powers all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think "Well I'll have a go too."
Margaret Thatcher
The world doesn't come to the clever folks it comes to the stubborn obstinate one-idea-at-a-time people.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. They have no use for helicopters!
Judi Adler
When you have a great and difficult task something perhaps almost impossible if you only work a little at a time every day a little suddenly the work will finish itself.
Isak Dinesen
The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length on the other hand an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second.
Virginia Woolf
The apparent serenity of the past is an oil spread by time.
Lloyd Frankenberg
Time goes by: reputation increases ability declines.
Dag Hammarskjöld
What a day may bring a day may take away.
Thomas Fuller
One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.
Dean Rusk
Punctuality is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde
Longevity conquers scandal every time.
Shelby Foote
There was a young lady named Bright Who could travel much faster than light She started one day In the relative way And came back on the previous night.
Anonymous
I don't ask for your pity but just your understanding - no not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you and the enemy time in us all.
Tennessee Williams
Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.
George Ade
3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.
Thomas Fuller
It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
George Eliot
The butterfly counts not months but moments And has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
A penny for your thought.
John Lyly
The mind grows by what it feeds on.
J.G. Holland
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
Miguel de Cervantes
Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work fun of the most exhausting sort.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel you possess the certainty that... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't matters not one jot. The possibility is always there.
Monica Baldwin
If it weren't for the last minute nothing would get done.
Anonymous
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.
Henry David Thoreau
It is privilege of living to be ... acutely agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
Marya Mannes
We have only this moment sparkling like a star in our hand ... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
Marie Beynon Ray
Non-cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment but if cooking is evanescent so is the ballet.
Julia Child
The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.
Ruth Benedict
Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams
We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves unable to see that here now this very moment is sacred but once it's gone-its value is incontestable.
Joyce Carol Oates
Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone.
Samuel Butler
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.
Sherwood Anderson
I live now and only now and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.
Hugh Prather
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.
Storm Jameson