977 private quotes tagged great

“There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.” — George Santayana

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“Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.” — Victoria Woodhull

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“Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.” — Paracelsus

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“Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.” — Dean Koontz

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“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.” — Doris Lessing

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“Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.” — John Keats

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“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.” — Billy Graham

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“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.” — James Dean

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“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” — Clarence Darrow

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“Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.” — Katharine Hepburn

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“There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.” — Pablo Casals

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“The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.” — Thomas S. Monson

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“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.” — Sydney Smith

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“My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.” — Beau Bridges

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“No great thing is created suddenly.” — Epictetus

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“A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.” — Milan Kundera

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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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“I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.” — Hugh Leonard

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“Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.” — Emma Goldman

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“Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.” — Horatio Nelson

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“A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.” — Honore de Balzac

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