Little Minds Quotes

• Little things please little minds.

  Ovid

  Mind, Littles, Little Things

  Ovid, Stanley Appelbaum (2010). “The Art of Love”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Being Strong, Perseverance

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.44, Rowman & Littlefield

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Paine (1817). “The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes”

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• I love those who can smile in trouble.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Strength, Smile

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• A great empire and little minds go ill together.

  Edmund Burke

  Mind, Together, Littles

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

  Zig Ziglar

  Change, Forgiveness, Ambition

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• Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Attitude, Hard Times

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Being Strong, Perseverance

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• Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Ordinary Extraordinary, Intelligence

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• Little things affect little minds.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sarcastic, Work, Teaching

  1845 Sybil, bk.3, ch.2.

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• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silly, Science, Political

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Mind, Literature, Littles

  Thousand and One Epigrams (1911) p. 133

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• With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Adventure, Consistency

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.25, Coyote Canyon Press

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• What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Motivation

  Thomas Paine (2011). “Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings”, p.80, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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  Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

  Washington Irving

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Washington Irving (2014). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.181, Penguin

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• I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Love, Motivational, Strength

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• It is the business of little minds to shrink.

  Carl Sandburg

  Strength, Being Strong, Perseverance

  Carl Sandburg (1948). “Remembrance Rock”

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• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Thinking, Consistency

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  "The American Crisis: The Crisis No. I". Book by Thomas Paine, en.wikisource.org. December 23, 1776.

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• Small things amuse small minds.

  Doris Lessing

  Funny, Mind, Small Things

  Doris Lessing (2010). “Stories”, p.373, Vintage

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• There is no way our little minds can comprehend the love of God. But that didn't keep him from coming.

  Max Lucado

  Mind, Littles, Way

  Max Lucado (2009). “In the Grip of Grace”, p.172, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

  Juvenal

  Revenge, Mind, Littles

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• Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Consistency, Mind, Littles

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