977 private quotes tagged great

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

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“Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” — George Eliot

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“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” — William Blake

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

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“Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.” — Edmund Burke

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“It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.” — George Eliot

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“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.” — Robert Frost

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“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.” — Plutarch

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“Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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