977 private quotes tagged great

“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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“Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.” — James A. Michener

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“Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.” — John Dryden

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“To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.” — Horace

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“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.” — Norman Vincent Peale

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“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.” — John C. Maxwell

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“I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.” — Lil' Kim

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“Great art picks up where nature ends.” — Marc Chagall

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“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.” — George Edward Moore

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“Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.” — John Ruskin

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“The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.” — Samuel Smiles

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“I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.” — Bill Maher

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“Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.” — James Cash Penney

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“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” — Charles R. Swindoll

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“Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.” — Salman Rushdie

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“We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.” — Dick Gregory

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“There is something great and terrible about suicide.” — Honore de Balzac

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“You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.” — John Keats

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“Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.” — Princess Diana

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“The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.” — Pope John Paul II

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“My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.” — Bjorn Borg

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