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Most Famous Small Quotes of All Time!

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In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.

Quotes by Donna Shalala

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.

Quotes by Donald Tusk

Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.

Quotes by Donald Wills Douglas

When I started to play, all the coaches said it didn't make sense for me to try to play tennis because I was too small. They said I would never make it. But this was something that motivated me. I...

Quotes by Dominika Cibulkova

I got to work with Cillian Murphy and my dad, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker on 'Perrier's Bounty.' It was a small part, but it was really special.

Quotes by Domhnall Gleeson

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

Quotes by Dmitri Mendeleev

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

Quotes by Dinah Maria Mulock

Lincoln and Clinton had a lot in common in the way they were elected: In both cases, they were dark horses. In both cases, they were from small states. In both cases, they were not the favorite for their parties'...

Quotes by Dick Morris

I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement.

Quotes by Dick Armey

I'm European, small, dainty - but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy.

Quotes by Diane Kruger

As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.

Quotes by Diane Ackerman

Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

Quotes by Diane Ackerman

When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

Quotes by Diablo Cody

I write small and weird. Romcoms are not in my skill set.

Quotes by Diablo Cody

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

Quotes by Devon Sawa

When I cast great actors, I try to make extraordinary people ordinary, dealing with these extremely small intimate details of interpersonal relationships against an epic backdrop.

Quotes by Derek Cianfrance

I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama.

Quotes by Dennis Quaid

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.

Quotes by Dennis Ritchie

I really like to do small venues. They're more intimate.

Quotes by Denny Laine

Frequently Asked Questions

Do these quotes only talk about small in terms of size?
Not at all — "small" here ranges from company size to towns to personal ambition. One speaker even once thought a company was "a small company ripping off our copyrights," before it turned out to be a much bigger deal than expected. For more on how scale plays out in the working world, see Business quotes.
What do these quotes say about small towns?
One is blunt about it: "Small towns are the worst for getting recognised." It's a candid take on how a smaller community can limit visibility or opportunity, at least in this speaker's experience.
Is being small always seen negatively in these quotes?
No — one turns it into something aspirational: "I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles." Here, "small" describes an exclusive, admirable group rather than a limitation. If you'd rather explore the opposite end of scale, Big quotes covers bigger ambitions too.
How does this collection compare small and great?
One quote draws a direct contrast: "Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous." It suggests smallness here is linked to pettiness, while greatness is linked to generosity of spirit. Explore that idea further in Great quotes.
Is there a common thread tying these small quotes together?
Mostly that "small" is relative here — it can mean underestimated, limiting, exclusive, or even petty depending on context, and these four quotes touch on nearly every version of that. For more everyday words examined from every angle, check out Always quotes.

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