977 private quotes tagged great

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

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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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“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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“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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“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.” — Ansel Adams

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

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

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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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“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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“Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.” — Victor Hugo

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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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