977 private quotes tagged great

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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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“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.”— Ronald Reagan
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“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”— Lord Byron
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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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“It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”— H. L. Mencken
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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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“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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“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”— Edmund Burke
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“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”— George Eliot
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“There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destin us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Great and good are seldom the same man.”— Winston Churchill
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“If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.”— Lao Tzu
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“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”— Robert Frost
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“The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.”— Voltaire
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“My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.”— Lee Iacocca
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“No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.”— Andrew Carnegie
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“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”— Calvin Coolidge
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“The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.”— Winston Churchill
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“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.”— Henry Ford
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“It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.”— Plutarch