977 private quotes tagged great

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

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

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

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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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“There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.” — Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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“When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.” — George Eliot

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

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“There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.” — Victor Hugo

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“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.” — Thomas Carlyle

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