Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
George Eliot
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though d...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
STEVE JOBS Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
STEVE JOBS All great things are only a number of small things that have carefully been collected together.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
WILLIAM BLAKE Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street
WILLIAM BLAKE Few things are brought to a sucessful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent foreth...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent foret...
THUCYDIDES Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent foret...
THUCYDIDES Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have th...
CONFUCIUS Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have th...
WILSON MIZNER We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things.
EPICTETUS Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
MOTHER TERESA 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.
JASPER FFORDE Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but mos...
RALPH RANSOM Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
EPICTETUS It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection,...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection,...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The last few days have been very hectic, but things are coming together. The entries are coming in s...
PATTY SPECTOR Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but per...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Few things are impossible to diligence and skill ... Great works are performed, not by strength, but...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Great things are won by great dangers.
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AL SHARPTON I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates t...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I define my life not by the things I have done, but by the people I have loved.
JOHN PAUL WARREN Things are coming together for us, bit by bit.
KOLBI FRANDSEN If you can not do great things, Do small things in a great way.
NAPOLEON HILL People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
EPICTETUS Now you have to find the great things that are being done by young artists, whoever is of the best q...
BARRY FRIEDMAN Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sou...
GEORGE ELIOT My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
PAUL TILLICH We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
MOTHER THERESA There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.
MOTHER THERESA There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.
MOTHER TERESA What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, includin...
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BIBLE Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
EPICTETUS Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them
EPICTETUS If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
NAPOLEON HILL Hey, why you are staring at me with a gaze like something I have done wrong, waiting wrong to be don...
DEYTH BANGER Everything around us is made up of matter so small, its mass cannot be written down. You're either a...
KIARA S. MAHARAJ Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus.
EPICTETUS One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON You can accomplish great things by attempting great things.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to dilige...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetit...
ERNEST DIMNET Life, Teresa knew by now, was a series of losses. It was other things too, better things, but the lo...
ANN PATCHETT The things you fear are undefeatable,Not by their nature, but by your approach.
JEWEL We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
MOTHER TERESA We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?' ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Deciding not to decide is, of course, among the most important things done by the Supreme Court. It ...
THURGOOD MARSHALL The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by th...
ERNEST DIMNET The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the...
ERNEST DIMNET The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the...
ERNEST DIMNET It's weird how people who do great things, are satisfied with small things!
ARDIT BALISHA And since the portions of both the large and the small are equal in amount, in this way too all thin...
ANAXAGORAS There are greater things to be achieved in every new year, and each and everyone must prepare themse...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
JACK KEROUAC Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
CHARLES KURALT Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conce...
KAKUZō OKAKURA Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
VERNOR VINGE Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
PROVERB Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done
PERSIAN PROVERB It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed...
MARKUS ZUSAK Sounds simple, doesn’t it, this notion of simplicity? Simple things done simply by a simple person...
FENNEL HUDSON If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.
NAPOLEON HILL People who do great things in a great way are neither confined by time or place.
DEYON ANTEKO PITTER Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jacket...
BALTASAR GRACIAN They have a lot of great players, but they work together as a team. That's why they've been able to ...
DONNIE EDWARDS We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary lo...
JEAN VANIER Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done
CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY The Lord likes small things best, especially those done with love.
MOTHER TERESA When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was kill...
SASKYA PANDITA We learn of great things by little experiences.
BRAM STOKER The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishin...
BENJAMIN HAYDON Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishi...
BENJAMIN HAYDON You don't become a Christian by chance, God calls you because He already determined it. You really t...
NORM TOMLINSON Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
FERNANDO FLORES Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
FERNANDO FLORES As a result of trying to solve the big problems we face in life, many of us end up sacrificing indiv...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Think small to get BIG things done.
LORRIN L. LEE All the big revolutions, whether it's the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes ...
LUPE FIASCO If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a...
JOHN CONNOLLY Manifesting is a lot like making a cake. The things needed are supplied by you, the mixing is done b...
STEPHEN RICHARDS A leader becomes great by inspiring others to do great things.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
SALLUST The medieval ideal brought together two things which have no natural tendency to gravitate towards o...
C.S. LEWIS Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not ...
WILLIAM CORBETT Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.
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GEORGE ELIOT Hear Everything and judge for yourself
GEORGE ELIOT Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.
GEORGE ELIOT Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while...
GEORGE ELIOT Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh th...
GEORGE ELIOT There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere...
GEORGE ELIOT He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
GEORGE ELIOT A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
GEORGE ELIOT Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoug...
GEORGE ELIOT Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity
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