Yard by yard, it's very hard. But inch by inch, it's a cinch.
If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles.
When Ty Cobb got on first base he had an apparently nervous habit of kicking the bag. ... By kicking the bag hard enough Cobb could move it a full two inches closer to second base. He figured that this improved his chances for a steal, or for reaching second base safely on a hit.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing.... It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.
One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.
Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Life is a great bundle of little things.
Nothing can be done except little by little.
Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater.
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.
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
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.
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.
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
Even a small star shines in the darkness.
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
