977 private quotes tagged great

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” — Oscar Wilde

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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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“The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.” — Steve Jobs

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“The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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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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“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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“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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“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 have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.” — Ronald Reagan

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“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.” — George Eliot

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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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“If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.” — Steve Jobs

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

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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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“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?” — Walt Whitman

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“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.” — Karl Marx

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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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“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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