977 private quotes tagged great

“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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“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.” — Victor Hugo

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“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.” — Voltaire

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“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.” — Voltaire

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“A great artist is a great man in a great child.” — Victor Hugo

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“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.” — Ernest Hemingway

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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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“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.” — Samuel Butler

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“Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.” — Herman Melville

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“We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Thrift is of great revenue.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.” — Victor Hugo

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“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities: a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.” — George Eliot

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“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.” — Richard Dawkins

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“Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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