Time Quotes - Page 2

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective it is the doing the little things the common duties a little better and better.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

It's a simple formula: do your best and somebody might like it.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Chinese Proverb

Though thy beginning was small yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

Bible

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.

Dante Alighieri

Start by doing what's necessary then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Saint Francis of Assisi

If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest.

Publilius Syrus

Great issues develop from small beginnings.

Norman Vincent Peale

No matter how big and tough a problem may be get rid of confusion by taking one little step toward solution. Do something.

George F. Nordenholt

Most of the critical things in life which become the starting points of human destiny are little things.

R. Smith

Sow an act reap a habit sow a habit reap a character sow a character reap a destiny.

A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost for want of a horse the battle was lost for want of the battle the war was lost.

Benjamin Franklin

Inspiration does not come like a blot nor is it kinetic energy striving but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

Lord Chesterfield

Incident piled on incident no more makes life than brick piled on brick makes a house.

Edith Ronald Mirrielees

We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once.

Calvin Coolidge

We think in generalities but we live in detail.

Alfred North Whitehead

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.

Saint Francis de Sales

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

Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.

Anonymous

Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivananda

The smallest effort is not lost Each wavelet on the ocean tost Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow Each struggle lessens human woe.

In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes or when she'll say to thee "I find thee worthy do this deed for me?"

James Russell Lowell

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

Bible

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Edward Everett Hale

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

We must not... ignore the small daily differences we can make which over time add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Marian Wright Edelman

A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.

Lao Tzu

Not all things are blest but the seeds of all things are blest.

Muriel Rukeyser

Large streams from little mountains flow tall oaks from little acorns grow.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Chinese Proverb

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Charles Baudelaire

Practice yourself in little things and thence proceed to greater.

Epictetus

Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain unless one can ... do big things.

Herbert Butterfield

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.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Benjamin Franklin

Take your needle my child and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like embroidery.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Anonymous

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Benjamin Franklin

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

Alexander Smith

Even a small star shines in the darkness.

Finnish proverb

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job huge amounts of money a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If on the other hand happiness depends on a good breakfast flowers in the yard a drink or a nap then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.

William Feather

The little things are infinitely the most important.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

It is in trifles and when he is off his guard that a man best shows his character.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is denied by lack of attention whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

Nadia Boulanger

Many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

William Shakespeare

Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

Harriet Martineau

The waters wear the stones.

Bible

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

You don't just luck into things. ... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.

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