977 private quotes tagged great

“Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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“Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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“Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.” — Robert Frost

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“The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.” — Gore Vidal

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“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.” — Plutarch

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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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“Being is the great explainer.” — Henry David Thoreau

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