977 private quotes tagged great

“Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.” — Samuel Johnson

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“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.” — William Shakespeare

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“As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.” — Winston Churchill

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“My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.” — Maya Angelou

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“No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.” — George Eliot

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“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.” — Helen Keller

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“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” — Confucius

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

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“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.” — George Eliot

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“There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” — Mark Twain

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“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.” — Samuel Johnson

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

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“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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“Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

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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 creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.” — William Butler Yeats

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