977 private quotes tagged great

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“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.”— Andrew Carnegie
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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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“Thrift is of great revenue.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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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“There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”— Benjamin Franklin
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”— Gore Vidal
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“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”— Ansel Adams
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“Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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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“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”— Elbert Hubbard
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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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“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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“Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.”— Plutarch