977 private quotes tagged great

“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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“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 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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“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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“Marriage is a great institution.” — Elizabeth Taylor

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

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“People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.” — Joel Osteen

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“There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.” — Lope de Vega

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“Life should be great rather than long.” — B. R. Ambedkar

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“The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” — Jane Austen

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“The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.” — Swami Sivananda

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“The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.” — Andrew Jackson

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