Ability is of little account without opportunity.
~Lucille Ball
The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
~William Jennings Bryan
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
~Leo Buscaglia
There is little success where there is little laughter.
~Andrew Carnegie
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
~Andrew Carnegie
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
~Confucius
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
~Emily Dickinson
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
~George Eliot
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
~Epictetus
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
~Benjamin Franklin
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
~Baltasar Gracián
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
~Elbert Hubbard
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
~Samuel Johnson
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
~Thomas Merton
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
~Marcel Proust
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
~Marcel Proust
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
~Proverb
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
~Seneca
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
~Socrates
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
~John Steinbeck
Big doors swing on little hinges.
~W. Clement Stone
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
~Lao Tzu
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
~George Washington
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