Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out-it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

O Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!

For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost- And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail.

Trifles, trifles are what matter!

Small things are what make great things possible.

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life.

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

Cracks make caves collapse.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

What dire offence from amorous causes springs! What mighty contests rise from trivial things!

A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.

Trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

It's the people whore comfortable who have time to worry over little trivial things.

Those who apply themselves too much to little things usually become incapable of great ones.

The displacement of a little sand can change occasionally the course of deep rivers.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.