Small Quotes

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest.

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.

Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.

A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.

National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

As you know, God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small.

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

I don't know really. I've always been interested in the small picture instead of the big one, and I've always been interested in relationship pictures.

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

Small things amuse small minds.

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually.

From an app point of view, if you looked at innovation on the PC, you'd be hard pressed to find companies innovating. The list is small.

I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.

I like being small - I've known so many women with big boobs who feel overweight or end up with back problems.

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.

Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing.

I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.