977 private quotes tagged great

“On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.” — William Bartram

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“Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.” — Joe Paterno

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“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” — Walter Bagehot

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“No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.” — Michael Bloomberg

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“Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.” — Samuel Richardson

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“If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.” — Henry Van Dyke

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“A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.” — Vivica Fox

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“We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.” — Zachary Quinto

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“For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.” — Michael Jordan

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“Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.” — Jim Rohn

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“I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.” — William Glasser

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“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Where there is great love, there are always wishes.” — Willa Cather

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“Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.” — Lance Armstrong

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“A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.” — Frederick Douglass

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“I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.” — John Wayne

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“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.” — Chanakya

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“We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.” — Milton Friedman

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“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.” — Hamilton Jordan

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“In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.” — Salvador Dali

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