977 private quotes tagged great

“A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.” — Jean Genet

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“A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.” — James Russell Lowell

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“We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.” — Matthew Modine

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“Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.” — Steve Harvey

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“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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“A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.” — Joseph Addison

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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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“The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.” — Milton Friedman

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“Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.” — Florence Scovel Shinn

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“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.” — Wilma Rudolph

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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 awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.” — M. Scott Peck

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“Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.” — Jan Peter Balkenende

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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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“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.” — Honore de Balzac

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

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“I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.” — Luther Burbank

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“A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.” — Oliver Goldsmith

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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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“Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.” — Tallulah Bankhead

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“I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” — Horace Mann

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“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.” — George Santayana

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