977 private quotes tagged great

“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.” — Robert Frost

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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 really great talent finds its happiness in execution.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?” — Henry David Thoreau

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“It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.” — Plutarch

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“A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.” — Erich Fromm

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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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“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.” — Henry Ford

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“Great and good are seldom the same man.” — Winston Churchill

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“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.” — George Orwell

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

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“Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.” — E. B. White

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“Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.” — Plato

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“There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destin us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“It takes a great man to be a good listener.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.” — H. G. Wells

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

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“Life in abundance comes only through great love.” — Elbert Hubbard

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