977 private quotes tagged great

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“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”— Blaise Pascal
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“A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.”— Marcus Aurelius
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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.”— Anatole France
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“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”— Harriet Tubman
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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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“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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“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.”— Aristotle
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“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”— Vincent Van Gogh
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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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“The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.”— Rabindranath Tagore
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“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”— 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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“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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“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”— Thomas Carlyle
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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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“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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“His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.”— Steve Jobs
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“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.”— Theodore Roosevelt
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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 ideas originate in the muscles.”— Thomas A. Edison
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“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”— Albert Einstein
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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
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“If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca