977 private quotes tagged great

“Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.” — Paracelsus

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“Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.” — Dean Koontz

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“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” — Stephen Leacock

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“Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.” — Humphry Davy

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“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.” — Charles Dickens

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“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.” — Homer

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“I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.” — Henry Rollins

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“I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.” — Steven Seagal

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“Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“Traffic was very, very free. It was great.” — Jim Capaldi

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“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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“The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.” — Basil Hume

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“We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.” — Billy Graham

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“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.” — Mick Jagger

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“The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.” — Ellen G. White

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“To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time.” — Leonard Bernstein

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“Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.” — Henry Rollins

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“Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.” — Jonathan Brown

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“I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.” — John Keats

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“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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