977 private quotes tagged great

“Where there is great love, there are always wishes.” — Willa Cather

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“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.” — Honore de Balzac

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“What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.” — William Glasser

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“I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.” — Jim Rohn

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“Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.” — Martha Graham

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“There is a woman at the begining of all great things.” — Alphonse de Lamartine

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“For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.” — Michael Jordan

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“Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.” — Leon Trotsky

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“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?” — Leslie Caron

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“If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.” — Dag Hammarskjold

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“America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.” — Allen Boyd

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“A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.” — Vivica Fox

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“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.” — Peace Pilgrim

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“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.” — Peter Marshall

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“God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.” — Billy Graham

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“Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.” — Saint Augustine

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“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.” — Earl Nightingale

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“The great object is that every man be armed.” — Patrick Henry

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“A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.” — Barbara Corcoran

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“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” — William James

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“I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.” — John Ruskin

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