977 private quotes tagged great

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“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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“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Thrift is of great revenue.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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