977 private quotes tagged great

“Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.” — Edmund Burke

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“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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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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“The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling; save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.” — Oscar Wilde

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

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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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“No crime is so great as daring to excel.” — Winston Churchill

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

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

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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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“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Produce great men, the rest follows.” — Walt Whitman

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“To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

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

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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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“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” — Mark Twain

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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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