977 private quotes tagged great

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” — Rosalynn Carter

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“I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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“God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.” — Abdul Kalam

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“It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!” — Anthony de Mello

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“Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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

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“One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“He was as great as a man can be without morality.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.” — Laura Schlessinger

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“The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.” — Jacques Yves Cousteau

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“I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.” — Shelby Foote

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“Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme to be sublimely great or to be nothing.” — Shakti Gawain

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“The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.” — Pindar

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“Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.” — Bette Davis

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“So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.” — Matthew Henry

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

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“I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.” — Henny Youngman

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“It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.” — Pythagoras

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“I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat Bob Marley got heat Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.” — Ziggy Marley

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“The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.” — Horace

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“When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.” — Cher

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“A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.” — Jeff Bridges

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