977 private quotes tagged great

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

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“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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“Half a truth is often a great lie.” — Benjamin Franklin

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

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“It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.” — Albert Einstein

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

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“A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.” — Samuel Johnson

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“A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.” — Steve Jobs

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“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.” — Aristotle

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“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” — Albert Einstein

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

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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.” — Aristotle

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

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“A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.” — Marcus Aurelius

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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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“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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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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“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.” — Woodrow Wilson

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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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