977 private quotes tagged great

“I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.” — Emeril Lagasse

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“Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.” — Black Elk

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“I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.” — Ice Cube

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“Success is a great deodorant.” — Elizabeth Taylor

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“Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.” — Jean Rostand

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“Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.” — Norman Cousins

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“Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.” — Saint Augustine

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“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” — J. K. Rowling

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“Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.” — Omar Khayyam

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“Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.” — Joseph Henry

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“The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?” — Gwyneth Paltrow

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“A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.” — Boris Yeltsin

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“With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.” — Saint Augustine

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“I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.” — Orson Welles

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“Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.” — Anna Magnani

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“The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.” — Andrew Jackson

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“Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.” — Saint Augustine

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“It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.” — Robert Fulghum

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“Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.” — Epictetus

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“Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.” — Sydney J. Harris

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“Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it.” — Danny Kaye

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