977 private quotes tagged great

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

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

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

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

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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 Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.” — Thomas Jefferson

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

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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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“All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.” — Samuel Johnson

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

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

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