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“The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.”
“There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”
“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”
“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”
“He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.”
“Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?”
“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”
“We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.”
“Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.”
“Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.”
“When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.”
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
“In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”
“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.”
“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”
“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.”
“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”
“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
“Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.”
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”