977 private quotes tagged great

“There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.” — Woodrow Wilson

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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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“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.” — Mark Twain

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

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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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“My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.” — Lee Iacocca

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

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

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

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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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“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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“If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.” — Lao Tzu

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“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.” — Alan Watts

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

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

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