977 private quotes tagged great

“Because of a great love, one is courageous.” — Lao Tzu

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“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.” — Sigmund Freud

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“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.” — Walt Whitman

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“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Great acts are made up of small deeds.” — Lao Tzu

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“Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.” — William Shakespeare

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“My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water.” — Mark Twain

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“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.” — John Lennon

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“I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.” — Muhammad Ali

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“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.” — Robert H. Schuller

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“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.” — Lewis Carroll

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“We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.” — Steve Jobs

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“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.” — William Shakespeare

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“People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Silence is a source of great strength.” — Lao Tzu

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“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” — Napoleon Hill

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“We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.” — Lee Iacocca

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“I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.” — Steve Jobs

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“The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.” — Walt Whitman

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