977 private quotes tagged great

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“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”— John F. Kennedy
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“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?”— Henry David Thoreau
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“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.”— Mark Twain
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“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.”— Anatole France
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“Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”— Maya Angelou
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“Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.”— Samuel Johnson
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“All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.”— Gore Vidal
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“Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.”— Christopher Hitchens
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“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”— Victor Hugo
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“Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.”— Oscar Wilde
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“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”— Plato
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“Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.”— R. Buckminster Fuller
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“The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.”— William Butler Yeats
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“When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.”— Francis Bacon
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“No man was ever great by imitation.”— Samuel Johnson
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“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”— Samuel Johnson
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“Great countries are those that produce great people.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.”— Thomas Fuller