977 private quotes tagged great

“Great countries are those that produce great people.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.” — Harry S. Truman

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“The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.” — Alexander Pope

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“We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.” — Francis Bacon

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“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.” — George Eliot

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“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Thrift is of great revenue.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.” — Niels Bohr

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“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.” — Edmund Burke

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“One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.” — Napoleon Hill

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“Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.” — Helen Keller

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“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.” — Edmund Burke

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“A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.” — Helen Keller

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“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” — Ronald Reagan

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