977 private quotes tagged great

“Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.” — Tom Hanks

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“If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.” — Robert Frost

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“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.” — Walt Whitman

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“He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.” — Thomas Fuller

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“Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.” — Paulo Coelho

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“Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.” — Yousef Munayyer

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“Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?” — Abdul Kalam

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“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.” — Jacqueline Bisset

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“We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.” — Jane Austen

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“When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.” — Brian Eno

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“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” — Lao Tzu

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“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.” — Lao Tzu

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“Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.” — Lao Tzu

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“Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.” — Aristotle

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“In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” — Lee Iacocca

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“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.” — Lao Tzu

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“Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.” — Ray Bradbury

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“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.” — Plato

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“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” — Maya Angelou

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“In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.” — James Madison

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“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“To be great is to be misunderstood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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