Small Things Matter Quotes

“Do small things.⁣ Small moments matter.⁣”
― Richie Norton

“It was nice to be out, despite the wind, and I decided to walk instead of taking the bus, enjoying what remained of the sun. There were plenty of other people with the same idea. It felt good to be part of a throng, and I took gentle pleasure in mingling. I dropped twenty pence into the paper cup of a man sitting on the pavement with a very attractive dog. I bought a fudge doughnut from Greggs and ate it as I walked. I smiled at a spectacularly ugly baby who was shaking his fist at me from a garish pushchair. Noticing details, that was good. Tiny slivers of life---they all added up and helped you to feel that you too could be a fragment, a little piece of humanity who usefully filled a space, however minuscule.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“If you want to make it big, remember to do the small things well.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“It is in small things that big things happen.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“The engine in a rocket ship does not fire without a small spark first. We all need small sparks, small accomplishments in our lives to fuel the big ones”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“Dorjan didn’t know whether to admire the record keeper who’d been added to his family or just call the man odd for his dedication to recording small things.

Some people are record keepers. Lighthouse keepers, for instance. Weather keepers for the almanac. There are organizations with profound record-keeping characteristics such as archivists for arts and history museums, research scientists, political biographers, and the recent Internal Revenue Service which could be up to no good, but what was Rich up to?”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch