977 private quotes tagged great

“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” — Maya Angelou

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“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.” — Samuel Johnson

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“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.” — Lord Byron

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“Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.” — George Eliot

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“His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller

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“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” — William Shakespeare

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“Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.” — George Eliot

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“A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.” — Samuel Johnson

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“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.” — Walt Whitman

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“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” — Harriet Tubman

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“Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Great ideas originate in the muscles.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.” — Henry Ford

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“It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.” — Logan P. Smith

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