977 private quotes tagged great

“The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.” — Charles Dickens

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“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.” — Robert H. Schuller

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“Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!” — Colin Powell

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“I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!” — Zac Efron

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“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.” — Euripides

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“There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.” — Clint Eastwood

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“If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.” — Anne Lamott

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“The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.” — Pablo Neruda

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“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.” — Peace Pilgrim

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“You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.” — Billy Corgan

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“Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.” — Sallust

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“A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.” — John Ruskin

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“I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” — Rita Rudner

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“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” — John Steinbeck

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“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” — Moliere

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“And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.” — Homer

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“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” — Honore de Balzac

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“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” — William James

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“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” — Mother Teresa

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“The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.” — John Ruskin

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“No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.” — Calvin Coolidge

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

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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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“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.” — Swami Vivekananda

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