Great Quotes - page 2

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses. (Miguel de Cervantes)
To be great is to be misunderstood. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
Great thoughts always come from the heart. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. View quote
Voltaire
A great fortune is a great slavery. View quote
Seneca
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. View quote
Pythagoras
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration nay, it is a very easy matter but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome. View quote
Plutarch
You have to study a great deal to know a little. View quote
Montesquieu
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. (Hector Berlioz)
I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay. View quote
Isaac Newton
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. View quote
Henry James
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. View quote
Herodotus
The great events of the world take place in the brain... View quote
Oscar Wilde
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. View quote
Laozi
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. View quote
Laozi
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his Body and truth for his soul. View quote
Pythagoras
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. View quote
Tacitus
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
The history of the world is but the biography of great men. (Thomas Carlyle)
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. View quote
Winston Churchill
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. View quote
Anatole France
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. View quote
Rita Rudner
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