Little minds vs great minds

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

Washington Irving

Dots

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
Steve Jobs

Success

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Carpe diem

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.

Orison Swett Marden

Power

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. 

Alice Walker

Chase your dreams

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D. Rockefeller

Character

Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe

Dare to dream

Our aspirations are our possibilities. 

Samuel Johnson

Perseverance - again and again and again

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Henry Ford

Courage

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle

Time is limited

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs

Decisions

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

Wait

Don't rush on anything. When the time is right, it'll happen.
Anonymous

Perseverance

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. 

Tom Robbins

One step at a time

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Chinese proverb

Perseverance

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Margaret Thatcher

Think

Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.
Alfred Adler

Strength

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. 

Mahatma Gandhi

Perspective

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. 

Sir John Lubbock

Change

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Maya Angelou

Right time, right place

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan

Actions

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt

Mistakes

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. 

Albert Einstein

Books

A room without books is like a body without a soul. 

Marcus Tullius Cicero