977 private quotes tagged great

“A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.” — Frederick Douglass

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“Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.” — Lance Armstrong

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

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“The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.” — Henry Van Dyke

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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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“If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.” — Marilyn Monroe

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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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“Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.” — Samuel Richardson

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

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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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“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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“God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.” — Marcus Garvey

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“I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.” — Sylvester Stallone

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