977 private quotes tagged great

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

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“I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.” — Hamilton Jordan

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“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” — Clarence Darrow

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“No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.” — Katharine Hepburn

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“There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.” — Pablo Casals

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“The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.” — Thomas S. Monson

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“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.” — Sydney Smith

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“In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.” — Salvador Dali

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“My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.” — Beau Bridges

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“No great thing is created suddenly.” — Epictetus

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“A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.” — Milan Kundera

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“I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.” — Emma Watson

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“I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.” — Hugh Leonard

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“I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.” — Cyrano de Bergerac

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“A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.” — Bo Bennett

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“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.” — Irving Berlin

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“All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.” — Patti LaBelle

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“Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.” — David Hume

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“Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.” — Emma Goldman

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