Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
Emily Dickinson

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert Kennedy

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Wilson Mizner

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
Epictetus

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Blaise Pascal

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.
Woody Allen

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
James Madison

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
John Locke

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
Marianne Williamson

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
Lenny Bruce

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Carl Jung