977 private quotes tagged great

“In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.” — James Madison

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“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.” — Plato

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“His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.” — George Eliot

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“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.” — Samuel Johnson

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“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.” — Lord Byron

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“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller

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“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.” — Richard Dawkins

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“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.” — Karl Marx

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“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.” — Walt Whitman

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“Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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“Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.” — Logan P. Smith

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