977 private quotes tagged great

“Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.” — Anatole France

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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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“As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“No man was ever great by imitation.” — Samuel Johnson

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“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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“High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.” — Gore Vidal

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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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“Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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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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“The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.” — Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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“Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” — Helen Keller

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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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“One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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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“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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“What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.” — Richard Dawkins

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