977 private quotes tagged great

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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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“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.”— Bertrand Russell
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“Being is the great explainer.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.”— Helen Keller
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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 is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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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“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”— George Eliot
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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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“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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“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.”— Bertrand Russell
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“I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.”— Martin Luther
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“One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.”— Aldous Huxley
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“There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!”— John F. Kennedy
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“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.”— Thomas A. Edison
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“He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.”— Francis Bacon
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“For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.”— Aeschylus
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“Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.”— John Wooden
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“Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”— Mae West
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“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”— Isaac Asimov
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“She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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“I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.”— Emma Watson
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“The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.”— John Ruskin