977 private quotes tagged great

“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'” — Sigmund Freud

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

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

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

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“Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.” — Plato

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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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“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” — Napoleon Hill

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

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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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“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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