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

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

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

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“It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.” — Muhammad Ali

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

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

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

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“What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.” — Pablo Picasso

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“All great peoples are conservative.” — Thomas Carlyle

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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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“The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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“There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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