977 private quotes tagged great

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“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.”— Steve Jobs
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“The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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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“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.”— Walt Whitman
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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 no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”— Ronald Reagan
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“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”— Samuel Johnson
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“A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.”— Steve Jobs
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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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“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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“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.”— George Eliot
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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.”— Marcus Aurelius
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“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.”— Robert Frost
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“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”— Vincent Van Gogh
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“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”— Aristotle
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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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“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?”— Walt Whitman
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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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“I always entertain great hopes.”— Robert Frost
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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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“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”— Henry Ward Beecher