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“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.”
“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
“Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.”
“A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.”
“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.”
“They never fail who die in a great cause.”
“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
“Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.”
“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.”
“It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.”
“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”
“Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.”
“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.”
“Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.”
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
“A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”
“My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.”
“Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.”
“If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
“I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.”
“As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.”