“Because of a great love, one is courageous.”
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“Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
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“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.”
“The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'”
“Silence is a source of great strength.”
“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”
“There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.”
“The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.”
“It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.”
“We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.”
“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
“I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.”
“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
“What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.”
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”
“I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”
“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
“My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water.”
“When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
“All great peoples are conservative.”
“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.”
“I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.”
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
“We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.”