977 private quotes tagged great

“What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?”— Robert H. Schuller

“If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.”— Jeff Bezos

“Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.”— Malcolm Muggeridge

“As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.”— Abdul Kalam

“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.”— Taylor Swift

“Great events make me quiet and calm it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.”— Queen Victoria

“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.”— Julius Caesar

“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.”— Thomas Carlyle

“Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.”— Aldous Huxley

“No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.”— Karl Marx

“You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.”— Alan Watts

“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”— Nelson Mandela

“If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.”— Ray Bradbury

“Mankind is made great or little by its own will.”— Friedrich Schiller

“A great man is always willing to be little.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”— C. S. Lewis

“To do a great right do a little wrong.”— William Shakespeare

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”— William Blake

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”— George Eliot

“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld