Insecure People

“Anxious and insecure people tend to seek out powerful patrons and ideologies to which to conform in order to feel “safe.” When you have little faith in your own identity or drives, the desire to be subsumed and validated by the will of others is a powerful opiate.”
--Boriqua Gato

Stinging Criticism

“If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism.”
--Dale Carnegie

Christmas Expectations

“I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.”
-- David Grayson

Ability's Opportunity

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
--Napoleon Bonaparte

The Little Things

“The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
--William Wordsworth

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Size Does Not Matter

“When you tell a little lie, or do a tiny cheat, or commit a small theft you are still a liar, a cheater, or a thief. Size does not matter.”
--Jeffrey Fry

A Little Wisdom

“If I had just a little bit of wisdom I should walk the great path and fear only straying from it.”
--Lao Tzu

Blowhards

“Men of least grasp and of fewest ideas put their little thoughts into the biggest and wordiest orations.”
--Abraham Lincoln

Self Governance

“A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.”
--Louisa May Alcott

Little Things

“It's always the little things that make the big things happen.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Time and Resources

“When faced with having too little time and not enough resources there are two delivery choices: be scrappy or crappy. Scrappy is unpolished, flexible, resilient, better than good enough and cares about impact. We all know what crappy is.”
--Seth Godin

Fishing for Ideas

“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.”
--David Lynch

A Little Extra

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
--Jimmy Johnson

Happiness and Love

“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”
--Helen Rowland

Stress Spice

“Stress is like spice -- in the right proportion it enhances the flavor of a dish. Too little produces a bland, dull meal; too much may choke you.”
--Donald Tubesing

Step off the Edge

“I had very little idea of what I was supposed to be doing, so I set out to learn. What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes, and step off the edge.”
--Katharine Graham

Hold Onto Friends

“You hold onto friends by keeping your heart a little softer than your head.”
--Jedi Proverb

Do Little

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little.”
--Sydney Smith

Settle for Less

“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.”
--Thomas Merton

Victory & Defeat

“From victory we learn little, from defeat - everything.”
--Jeffrey Fry