977 private quotes tagged great

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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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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“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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“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.” — Lord Byron

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

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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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“The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.” — Steve Jobs

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

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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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“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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“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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