977 private quotes tagged great

“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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“Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.” — Denis Diderot

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“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.” — E. W. Howe

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“My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.” — Oprah Winfrey

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

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“On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.” — William Bartram

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“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.” — Swami Vivekananda

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“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.” — Phillips Brooks

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“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.” — John Adams

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“Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.” — Mae West

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“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.” — Helen Gurley Brown

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“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.” — Louis D. Brandeis

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“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.” — Moliere

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“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.” — Dan Gable

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“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.” — Margot Fonteyn

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“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.” — Horace

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“Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.” — Larry Wilcox

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“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.” — John Ruskin

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