977 private quotes tagged great

“In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.” — Stephen Hawking

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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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“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.” — Mark Twain

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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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“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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“Great and good are seldom the same man.” — Winston Churchill

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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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“Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.” — Edmund Burke

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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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“It takes a great man to be a good listener.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.” — Edmund Burke

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“Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.” — E. B. White

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“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” — Helen Keller

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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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“It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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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“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.” — Samuel Johnson

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“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.” — Blaise Pascal

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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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“It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.” — Plutarch

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

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“Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.” — Plato

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