977 private quotes tagged great

“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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“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” — Bertrand Russell

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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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“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” — Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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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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“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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“It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.” — 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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“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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“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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“I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.” — Martin Luther

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“One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.” — Aldous Huxley

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“There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!” — John F. Kennedy

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“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.” — Francis Bacon

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“For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.” — Aeschylus

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“Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.” — John Wooden

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“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.” — Phillips Brooks

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“Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.” — Mae West

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“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” — Isaac Asimov

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“She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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“I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.” — Emma Watson

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