977 private quotes tagged great

“To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.” — Samuel Johnson

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“No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.” — George Eliot

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

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

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“Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.” — 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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“Life in abundance comes only through great love.” — Elbert Hubbard

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

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“Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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 years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.” — William Butler Yeats

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

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

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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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“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.” — George Eliot

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“There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.” — Plato

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“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” — George Eliot

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“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” — William Blake

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“Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.” — Edmund Burke

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“It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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