977 private quotes tagged great

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou

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

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

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“All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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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“Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.” — Victor Hugo

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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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“Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.” — Oscar Wilde

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“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” — Plato

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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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“Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.” — John F. Kennedy

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

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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 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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“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” — Samuel Johnson

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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 is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.” — Thomas Fuller

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“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.” — Bill Gates

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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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“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” — James Madison

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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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