977 private quotes tagged great

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“If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”— Albert Einstein
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“A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.”— Marcus Aurelius
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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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“He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”— George Bernard Shaw
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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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“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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“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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“I always entertain great hopes.”— Robert Frost
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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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“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”— Thomas Carlyle
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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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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.”— Anatole France
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“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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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“Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.”— Benjamin Franklin
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“Great ideas originate in the muscles.”— Thomas A. Edison
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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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“Produce great men, the rest follows.”— Walt Whitman
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“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”— Vincent Van Gogh
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“Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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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