Quotation Explorer - 'Great'

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ. - Anonymous
I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have aided the great cause of human liberty and universal happiness. - James Watson
Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream. - Hans Selye
I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on. - Kurt Vonnegut
A great storm is like a sunny day to a person of great faith. A gentle wind is like a great storm to a person of great fear. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Good and great are seldom in the same man. - Winston S. Churchill
[To my enemy:] Some are great, some are born great, some have greatness thrust upon them! And then there's you. - Reginald Dipwipple
A man who makes a plate or a shirt or a loaf of bread or anything our great great ancestors called a work of art, has no need to try to be sincere; all he can do is practice his craft to the best of his ability. But once he starts making useless things, how can he not be sincere? - René Daumal
Where there is great love, there are always miracles. - Willa Cather
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities. - Kahlil Gibran
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. - Alan Turing
Happiness does not come in large incomes or the most exotic home, it comes in small doses of a great self esteem which can be built upon the strengths of an individual. - Nicholas A. McGirr
Leadership is an ability to have a great vision for the future and the ability to inspire others to follow. - Debasish Mridha
Accomplishment of your dreams requires personal sacrifice and hardworking.May the you have a determined spirit, will power and a great passion for the accomplishment of your dreams. - Lailah GiftyAkita
How great are the advantages of solitude! -- How sublime is the silence of nature's ever-active energies? There is something in the very name of wilderness, which charms the ear, and soothes the spirit of man. There is religion in it. - Estwick Evans
pulling a great substance from a higher height whilst leaning on a slippery ground with the mentality of having the substance whilst standing is a thought of fantasy. You may only result in falling with the substance - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
As Harvard Business School professor Peter Bregman advises, 'Don't write a book, write a page...Don't expect to be a great manager in your first six months, just try to set expectations well. - Shawn Achor
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. - Pearl Buck
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. - Georg Wilhelm
We are born under circumstances that would be favorable if we did not abandon them. It was nature's intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy. - Seneca
To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe! - Anatole France
Here is a list for you - things I want to do with you:Love youLaughMake love with youLaughCook with youEat youLove youLaughDrink great wineLove you, always. - Zenaida Aguilera
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. - Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity - Brian Kiteley
The hobgoblin of a little mind may be the genius of a great one. - Hermester Barrington
Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's thechoices we make that define who we really are. - Charles de Lint
It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us. - Abraham Lincoln
I have great respect for the Syrian people, as I do for the rest of the Middle East. - Steven Magee
When you do great things, Expect greater things. None of your works are done in vain. You will achieve what you set forth to accomplish! - Amaka Imani Nkosazana
When you are happy you can forgive a great deal. - Diana Princess of Wales
History narrates stories about great men from the past,write your story now and make history - Mohammed Sekouty
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. - Simone Weil
Life is a great gift from God. - Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is in us, and not simple out there. And Christians are making a great mistake by turning everything into culture wars. It's a much deeper crisis. - Os Guinness
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sometimes our freedom comes in the way we accept things over which we have no control, things which may cause us great pain and even death. - Madeleine L'Engle
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great. - George Bernard Shaw
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. - H.L. Mencken
The best way to achieve great success is to learn from wise people. Use them extensively with love, gratitude, and humility. - Debasish Mridha
Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist. - Oscar Wilde
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. - Joseph Addison
We are made wholeBy books, as by great spaces and the stars - Mary Carolyn Davies
I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger liners, I have always been subject to a romantic longing for ocean travel. - Bill Bryson
Nothing against the music, it's awesome... but going deeper and deeper in Super Genes... it's kind of dry... isn't it???So I need something bloody!- Crime is a great choice! - Deyth Banger
Successful innovators recognize that discovery of great ideas come from looking at the same thing as everyone else and observing something different.
t takes great courage to stand up against your fixed, false beliefs. - Debasish Mridha
You would not experiencing great change unless you were ready for the transformation. Embrace the new you that's emerging. - Leeza Donatella
Great self-skills are self-confident, self-courage and self-steadiness. - Lailah Gifty Akita
More love, more power.Less love, less power.Great love, great power. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Great partnerships should benefit us all - Marcel Fuursted
Follow your passion.It will lead you to great places. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Great acts are made up of small deeds. - Lao Tzu
Blessed are you when you commit your life to the Lord.Your life will overflow with great joy and abundant life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. - W. Somerset Maugham
And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.... Don't settle - Steve Jobs
What a major mistake, having rejected pretty much all of the great talented female artists that have lived throughout the ages, art history is left incomplete. The validity of the written art history is as absent as those women left out. - Siren Waroe
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. - Phillips Brooks
For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game. - Grantland Rice
Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. - Confucius
You least obtain something great from the great thing you regard as least though such great thing can give you something great - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I am not a philosopher but a friend, who, with great love and care, wants to share his thoughts. - Debasish Mridha
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses. - Charles Kingsley
It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly. - Roopleen
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. - Doris Lessing
One of the Great Rules of Economics According to If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich. - John Green
All great change in America begins at the dinner table. - Ronald Reagan
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
Be a great writer when you write your life's song. - Debasish Mridha
Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is the Great Wall of China between them! - Mehmet Murat ildan
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. - B.F. Skinner
The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. - Amy Poehler
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience. - Shelley Winters
Books they’re kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing. - Philip Seymour Hoffman
If I do depart this world out here, let it be known that I went out grinning will you, and loving it. LOVING IT.Steve, are you listening ? I FEEL GREAT. Life’s so joyous, so sad, so ephemeral, so crazy, so meaningless, so goddamn funny. This is paradise, and I wish I could give you some. - Robyn Davidson
It needs a very long time to earn a great respect but it just needs a few second to spoil all respect... - Shehryar
I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps. - John Green
Great books help you understand and they help you feel understood. - John Green
Money is a great servant but a bad master. - Francis Bacon
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. - G. Gordon Liddy
Often a healthy obsession is an essential component of great success. - Debasish Mridha
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book, and a tired man who wants a book to read. - G.K. Chesterton
If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Where there is great love, there are always happiness and joy. - Debasish Mridha
Great anger is more destructive than the sword
A baby is born with two great assets: love and hope. - Debasish Mridha
When i was a child, i liked tasting any candy i happened to see, but as i grew older, i realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun old habits or nay? That's the question. - Michael Bassey Johnson
All these moments of sadness, of discomfort, of pain shall pass. The suffering you experience today will make you stronger for your tomorrows to come. You will be better. You will be Great . You will be happy and well and a success. You will finally touch the heavens that you aspired to - Levon Peter Poe
Because everybody has a conscience, whether or not we can be great beings is not determined merely by its presence in us . Instead, it is determined by the choice to acknowledge its presence and follow its lead - Ilchi Lee
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. - Dag Hammarskjold
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards. - Elbert Hubbard
Don't be humble, you're not that great. - Golda Meir
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great leaders do not shift responsibility even if it means acknowledging their own failures. - Gugu Mona
A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional... values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process. - C. S. Lewis
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan...believe...act! - Alfred A. Montepert
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. - Richard Dawkins
At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important. - M.C. Escher
Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wantingSo much as just finding the gold.It's the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder,It's the forests where silence has lease;It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder,It's the stillness that fills me with peace. - Robert W. Service
What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters. - Charles Baudelaire
Action on the move creates its own route; creates to a very great extent the conditions under which is it to be fullfilled, and thus baffles all calculation. - Henri Bergson
Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one! - Mehmet Murat ildan
When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present. - Terry Pratchett
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. - Ernest Hemingway
In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals. - C.G. Jung
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. - Albert Schweitzer
Anything is possible.""You really believe that?""It's what the great love stories are about, right?Beating the odds. - Richard Castle
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Never give up on the idea you can become great. Always grab on the possibility you can become successful. - Sandu Andronic
If you can believe in something great, then you can achieve something great. - Katy Perry
Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time. - Wilson Mizner
And did with sighs their fate deplore,Since I must shelter them no more;And if before my joys were such,In having heard, and seen too much,My grief must be as great and high,When all abandoned I shall be,Doomed to a silent destiny. - Aphra Behn
It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love." - Mother Theresa - Mother Teresa
The power of prayer is priceless. Great things can be accomplished by prayer. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Handle the little things well; for they become the great things. - Flo Falayi
To be the greatest; great test. - Johnnie Dent Jr.
Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things. - Mencius
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools! - Marshall McLuhan
Great books make great being. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview] - Noam Chomsky
If you have legs that work, walk in the right direction. If you have an audible voice, say constructive words. If you have functional eyes, see great things. If you are in a position of power, use it productively and if you have a sound mind, think exceptionally; for such is not a given, but grace. - Gugu Mona
Irinistic motivation can help people attain academic success and possess themselves with great depth of knowledge. - Saaif Alam
The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough. - Catherynne M. Valente
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them. - Henry Ford II
Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mind is the great lever of all things. - Daniel Webster
Even the great get greater by doing more of it. - Colleen Wainwright
Man himself is a great deep, whose very hairs Thou numberest, O Lord, and they fall not to the ground without Thee. And yet are the hairs of his head easier to be numbered than his feelings, and the beatings of his heart. - Augustine of Hippo
Always give your best; today's great work is tomorrow's benchmark. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
One who has great wisdom has great power. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul." - Paxton Hood
In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about the great aims of life if God withholds his saving power. - John Piper
Good books makes good life.Great books makes great life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
If any young man reads this Book aright, he becomes large-hearted. He cannot hold his soul within the narrow bound of his ribs, but his great heart looks out to see where it can scatter benefits. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Opportunity starts with a great education. - Auliq Ice
It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Our senses and emotions are the great source of inspiration for creating compelling and interesting art pieces (books included). Each art piece, be it a book, a song, a painting, a photograph or a product should touch our senses and evoke emotions. Emotionless art lacks purpose and interest. - Serafima
Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem that one thing you want. - Ufuoma Apoki
If I have done great things it's because I was standing in the closet of smart men taking notes and then publishing their ideas as my own. - Isaac Newton
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. - Herbert Hoover
Suffering is one of life's great teachers. - Bryant McGill
dare greatly, think great. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Being friends with you was great but now we will be both friends and lovers. - V.Kuotsu
The Holy Spirit gives power for the fulfillment of the Great Commission. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure. - D.L. Moody
The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason - but one cannot have both. - Robert A. Heinlein
Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. - Solomon Short
Step with care and great tact And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act Just never forget to be dexterous and deft And never mix up your right foot with your left. - Dr. Seuss
He is not great who is not greatly good. - William Shakespeare
Habits are familiar and comfortable, putting our reactions on autopilot and often leading us, instead, to great discomfort. - Charles F. Glassman
Although it's good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy for great talent. - Gugu Mona
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part. - Voltaire
If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Skill + hard work = SuccessSkill + hard work + prayer = Great success - Matshona Dhliwayo
A great leader acknowledges his or her finitude, and depends fully on the mighty powerful arm of strength of a Great God, to execute equity and justice for all. - Josephine Akhagbeme
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. - Adam Smith
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. - William James
Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?' - Terry Pratchett
Your mind is a powerful tool. Learn how to harness this power and your life will be filled with great things. - Teresa Garcia
Then none was for a party;Then all were for the state;Then the great man helped the poor,And the poor man loved the great;Then lands were fairly proportioned;Then spoils were fairly sold;The Romans were like brothersIn the brave days of old. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
A small temptation can stop a great glory and turn great joy into a great sorrow - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there is no honour too great to pay to the memory of , one of the greatest scientific discoverers of all time. Ernest Rutherford - Faraday
Mediocrity is the companion of passivity and will not heed the call of great things. Courage is the companion of sacrifice and cannot help but heed the call of great things. And we are left of our own accord to choose one or the other. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
The future historian will rank as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century.{Stanton's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll} Elizabeth Cady Stanton - him
Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer."[1967 interview] - Ray Bradbury
A year from today, it will be Good if your life is positively different, but GREAT if your life has made a positive difference on others - Fela Durotoye
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The fact that at the moment the distinction is being made, a young adult, as opposed to an adult, is the one reading it. In other words, I don’t entirely believe in the distinction. A great book is a great book, and it’s impossible to say what part of a person is going to connect to it. - Kristin Cashore
Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world. - Henry Clay
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act! - Alfred A. Montapert
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. - A.E. Housman
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. - Nelson Mandela
Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election. - James Taranto
See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little. - Pope John XXIII
The imagination is a healthy thing, and a great many scientific discoveries could not have been made without it, but it need to be harnessed to some serious object if it is to come to anything. - Diane Setterfield
All rising to a great place is by a winding stair. - Francis Bacon
I was taught to deceive by a great deceiver. Jenny will embrace me as a good man. Just as you did...before tonight. - Ken Cruickshank
I was at a party in 1989 and Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie were sitting on a sofa wondering where the next generation of great British writers would come from. As we talked, it became clear they had never read a word by me. - Jeanette Winterson
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us. - Anonymous
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. - Bertrand Russell
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done. - Vince Lombardi Jr.
Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and to express yourself and share your happiness with others. - Kaiden Blake
A free life is still free for great souls. Verily, whoever possesses little is possessed that much less: praised be a little poverty! - Friedrich Nietzsche
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. - John Tillotson
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. - Tom Stoppard
The barriers between animal and human come down very easily. We belong to a single great family, and if we are lonely and unhappy we gladly accept the friendship of our distant relations. - Marlen Haushofer
Bisexuals are really attracted to senior Lib Dems - as they are both a man and a great big pussy. - Frankie Boyle
We all cannot do everything or solve every issue. "It's impossible", however, if we each simply do our part. Make our own contribution, regardless of how small we may think it is.... together it adds up and great things get accomplished. - Mark W. Boyer
A great many people mistake opinions for thought. - Herbert V. Prochnow
No business can be a great success without a great purpose. - Debasish Mridha
It's time to end the brain drain and move to brain gain. It's time for a great mind of Nigeria to return home. You're the mind we need, Doctor. - Deji Olukotun
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself. - Jose Ortega y Gasset
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier. - Bill Gates
Becoming a failure requires no strength;becoming a success requires great fortitude. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it. - Adolf Hitler
Emulate greatness to be great. - Debasish Mridha
Fear is a great motivator.
We must help young women immerse themselves in a selfless work, perhaps receiving little public praise or attention. Instead, they must feel the Lord’s great love for them and their efforts through the influence of the Holy Ghost. - Neill F. Marriott
The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they're given wings. - Jalaluddin Rumi
Doing good makes you great. Bad things take away from good ones. Practicing Netiquette is all good. NetworkEtiquette.net - David Chiles
Finding a great idea is a magical thing and a fantastic job. - Debasish Mridha
Why do all great men, live not long enough, to see their greatness? - Borgohain J.
Nearly all people stand in great horror of annihilation, and yet to give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself. Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. - Robert G. Ingersoll
An attitude of gratitude brings great things. - Yogi Bhajan
You are imminently connected with this universe through your breathing. You can improve this great relationship by breathing consciously and appreciating this universe in this process. - Debasish Mridha
If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. - Charles Darwin
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. - Joseph Conrad
How love works: Proximity leads to intimacy, and intimacy leads to a relationship. In other words, people who are around each other a lot, get close, and end up hooking up. So it's no great mystery why bosses and secretaries or co-workers or classmates end up dating each other. - Oliver Gaspirtz
...use design as a secret disguise to infiltrate whatever world you want to go into. If you do that over and over again, and then translate that interest and curiosity into the work that you’re doing, you’ll do great. - Michael Bierut
Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts. - David Brown
We come into this world alone. You’re going to die alone. That’s the way it is.I think a really great interpretation of love is: feeling alone with someone else. The times in my life, if you want to qualify as being in love, when you feel almost like being alone with company. - Chris Evans
Positioning in pursuit of your purpose is critical to your success in life. Remember, great strikers are found in the proximity of the penalty box. That is strategic positioning. - Oscar Bimpong
America is too great for small dreams. - Ronald Reagan
The great achievements of western capitalism have rebounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful. - Milton Friedman
Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech. - Sir Winston Churchill
My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, "what about the great men with bushy hairs?". He replied, "education had made them mad, so study to be wise and sane. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Great News! If you quit being cunty the whole world will stop being against you! - Sarah Silverman
I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great. - James C. Collins
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. - Sir Thomas Browne
ANOINT, v.t. To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good. Judibras - Ambrose Bierce
HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for advantage of the lawyers. - Ambrose Bierce
A great mystery lies in the repetition and continuity of the renewal of that which is past. Culture perpetuates itself in memory and the big job is the reawakening of memory. - Hans-George Gadamer
it is good to have wealth. It is great to leave in comfort. It is awesome to obtain possessions but, don't be too eager for material possessions for the same material possessions that bring joy are the same possessions that bring sorrow and pain and also leave a big had I know on our minds - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Excuses are great, they come in handy in life. Except when they come between a relationship. - lauren gould
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great? - Kanye West
We are what we think. Think great, be great. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified. - G.K. Chesterton
We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it. - Woodrow Wilson
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Great souls know the strength of their spirit. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I follow many great religions. Body is my temple. Love is my religion. Peace is my religion. Happiness is my religion. - Debasish Mridha
One of the great constants in life is change. - Heracleitus
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. - Theodore Dreiser
Don't be sad that one day or another you met someone who undermined your capabilities and sapped your energy, what that person did could be the strongest crucible that forged a great leader - Ahmed Elkadi
The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life. - Roy Bennett
I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin. - Jonah Goldberg
To achieve greatness, we must overcome the fear of failure and dare to take great risks. - Debasish Mridha
When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain. - Junot Díaz
Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold. - Ecclesiasticus
All great stories began as shitty first drafts.There are no exceptions to this. - M. Kirin
People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage. - Joan Bauer
Sacrificing a part of yourself so others can go on to fafill there greatness, their destiny. Is greatness in itself but in a much smaller way that won't be written about or put in history books. But it is far more great in many ways. - Thomas Brodie Sangster
Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works. - Oscar Wilde
There is nothing more fascinating than the fusion between power and mystery in our great, little treasure: the human brain. - Hajar Charkaoui
He who is full of joy is full of great riches;he who is full of love is full of endless riches. - Matshona Dhliwayo
To climb great mountains you need feet of faith. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The great souls distinguish with two things; their greater needs and their greater agony. - Alireza Salehi Nejad
For my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move - Robert Davis Stevenson
College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students - there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks. - H. L. Mencken
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt. - William Shakespeare
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. - Lee Iacocca
Spring season is a sacred season of great strength. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts. - Abraham Lincoln
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. - John Keats
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. - Norman Maclean
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas. - Aldous Huxley
Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything [Fred Astaire] did, .. backwards and in high heels."From: Frank and Ernest by , art by . - Bob Thaves
Great imaginations are the breeding ground for great accomplishments!Great imaginations are like horses, they need guidance and proper nurturing, only then do they offer the world of adventure they promise. - Marilynn Dawson
I will not send you [Raimondo], they might murder you, but I do not think they will do anything to Catherine - she is a woman and they have great respect for her. - Pope Gregory XI
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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton
War created the conditions for great advances in technology...without war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn. - Adrian R. Lewis
To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should. - Gerard Manley Hopkins
Until one expands his imagination, abilities and capacity to do and receive, he will always have the crumbs from those who dare to do great works - Bernard Kelvin Clive
Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort. - Carla H. Krueger
Each decision you make today has the potential to unlock and open doors of profitable benefits or close the doors to great opportunities. Think before you act and make your decisions wisely today. - DeWayne Owens
Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Everyone should have a form of a diary it’s a great release Most people’s Diaries are called "My Diary" Mines called "Conversations with Me". - Stanley Victor Paskavich
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. - Ursula K. Le Guin
Great words, arranged with cunning and artistry, could change the perceived world for some readers - Pat Conroy
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last. - John Steinbeck
Even an expert has room to improve, grow and learn a little more. All the great masters teach this. For this reason, never allow an expert’s ‘opinion’ to limit you in any way, whether it is with your intellect, accomplishments or illness and disease - Gary Hopkins
Just like the cast of a great movie and the career of great athletes few success stories are a one man show. Build your team and grow. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
I could see that others had confused her disorganized passion for volatility. In reality, she was a scrumptious mess; deliciously majestic. She was on her way to great things in this life. - Steve Maraboli
You are not as great or terrible as you think you are. Neither are they. - J.D. Mader
The Jews are the scum of the earth, but they are also great masters in lying. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. - William Hazlitt
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. - Quintilian
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science." - Scientific Faith"Under the Thelián Sky: Beyond the Great Unknown" (c) 2012 - Frank Olvera
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show. - William Shakespeare
Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment. - Stephen King
I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas,how many yearning thoughts, what great desire,have lead them through such sorrow to their fate? - Dante Alighieri
A very serious mental disorder is associated with creativity, a disorder that afflicts only the great souls, and its cure is not known, even to the great souls. - Michael Bassey Johnson
What God says I am is what I am: great soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
ABOUT: KAHLIL GIBRAN "His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life else it could not have been so universal and so potent, but the majesty and beauty of the language with which he clothed it were all his own." -- - Claude Bragdon
Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.
Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years. - T.K. Naliaka
Are we going to be stupid? she whispered.Define stupid.Anything that involves either one of us exposing our favorite body parts. Or their hearts…I want to hear about your favorite body part, he said. In great detail. - Jill Shalvis
A great teacher plants the seeds of greatness in the minds of future generations. - Debasish Mridha
So many people from my past taught me that it's not everyone that's in my life wants to see me achieve my goals and be great, but I thank God they're no longer in my life because I moved on a long time ago, welcome to my present. - Werley Nortreus
I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration to their deaths, for it is our nature to banish such thoughts. - Seth Grahame-Smith
A great woman has three identities: a lovely daughter, a passionate lover, and a kind mother. - Debasish Mridha
Any great art work revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. - Leonard Bernstein
Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. - Walt Whitman
A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise. - Amit Kalantri
The Democrats would like you to believe that the USA is the 'Greatest nation on Earth'. Is this true? The Republicans answer this question by stating there is a need to 'Make America Great Again - Steven Magee
Great mentors give great advice. - Lailah Gifty Akita
This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident. - Martin Luther
The world to a blind man is his touch. The world to a stupid man is his mouth. The world to a great man is his vision. - Paul Harvey
Boredom is a great catalyst. - Marty Rubin
A great leader often sacrifices greatly in the service of others. - Debasish Mridha
There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence. - Jalaluddin Rumi
If you train a dog it will follow you but if you train yourself you will be Great. - Mike Desert
...tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune. - Lois McMaster Bujold
Don’t swear at your past; you couldn’t existed without it! It is the only path to reach today and tomorrow! Remember that past is a great teacher who thought us all we know now! - Mehmet Murat ildan
If you can believe in yourself, you can soar with great wings far beyond the sky. - Lailah Gifty Akita
There’s something so great about this, she whispers. About what? I whisper back.About this, she whispers. About being outlaws. It’s just you and me—against the world. - Sonya Sones
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. - Richard Feynman
Pedestals aren't safe...one wrong move and a nasty tumble is sure to follow. Humility is a great grounding tool. - Sanjo Jendayi
The truth therefore is that great nations become great not because of their amount of wealth an Great nations become great thanks to their wealth of truth, honesty and other virtues the natural resources. - Sunday Adelaja
Darnell had received what is called a sound commercial education, and would therefore have found very great difficulty in putting into articulate speech any thought that was worth thinking; - Arthur Machen
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. - G. K. Chesterton
All of the great achievers of the past have been visionary figures; they were men and women who projected into the future. They thought of what could be, rather than what already was, and then they moved themselves into action, to bring these things into fruition. - Bob Proctor
It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our hands. - Auberon Herbert
Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life, because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way. - Sheri Dew
When faith touches your heart, you can walk on water.When fear pricks your soul, you can sink on land.With a great mind, you can achieve countless things.With a strong heart, you can achieve extraordinary things.With a loving soul, you can achieve impossible things. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream.
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Actions speak louder than words is still the great truth about life. - Marty Rubin
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful. - Swami Vivekananda
I am blessed.I am beautiful.I am great. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. - Thomas A. Edison
Have a good day on purpose, then elevate your efforts towards other and enjoy a great day in purpose. - Toni Jenkins
Skill is the bridge between success and great success. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow. - Steve Jobs
There's great peace in surrendering to principles - Stefan Molyneux
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude - Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing great is ever accomplished by following standards. - Geoffroy Birtz
Read great books and be great. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A great poet can give wings to abstract thoughts that touch a reader’s mind with the ecstasy of joy. - Debasish Mridha
I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator. - Hilary Swank
A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness. - Mother Teresa
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe. - Henry Kissinger
Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist; but the past existed! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The great majority of people are wandering generalities rather than meaningful specifics. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals. - Zig Ziglar
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. - Anaïs Nin
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. - Tom Bissell
One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses. - John Piper
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. - Miguel de Cervantes
Humans have been doin’ awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity’s not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that’s that. We’re about to go to war, Earl. There ain’t no humanity in war. - http sheamagazine.com fiction-afterlife-chapter-24
What you think can determine what you can achieve! So think big to achieve great things! - Dr. Vivencio Ballano
Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have to sacrifice creativity to have business success. To the contrary, great art requires discipline. - Paula Wagner
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we’re idling in front of our computer screens. - Joshua Foer
I don’t believe that young people today can live clean, pure lives without the help of God. The peer pressure is too great and the temptations they see in the movies and on television, and what they hear in their music is too much. Only Christ can give them the power to say no. - Billy Graham
The essential attributes of a great leader are a positive attitude, humility, and gratitude. - Debasish Mridha
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link, into the great chain of order.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. - George Gordon Byron
Working hard is important, but there's something that matters even more. Believing in yourself. Think of it this way: Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than we are now. Students. If they can do it, why not us? - J.K. Rowling
In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid. - Andrew Sullivan
It feels great, to work for what you want. - Lailah Gifty Akita
And this man, who had sailed round Europe and navigated the Great Northern Route, leaned happily over half a ladleful of thin oatmeal kasha, cooked entirely without fat - just oats and water. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In order to bring down the great, you have to be able to reach the stars. - Matshona Dhliwayo
And give to the orphans their properties and do not substitute the defective [of your own] for the good [of theirs]. And do not consume their properties into your own. Indeed, that is ever a great sin. The Women 4 :2 - Quran
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting. - Edward de Bono
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. - Wayne Gretzky
If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil? - Ayn Rand
Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies. - Faye Weldon
We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When I know that I have inspired someone to do something great, I know that I have done my job. - Andrea L'Artiste
If thinking and reason crack under pressure of emotional convulsions or when commissioned facts are resulting from fibs and fake constructions, truth may be in great peril. ( Blame storming) - Erik Pevernagie
If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful. - Johnny Ramone
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. - Greek proverb
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. - Friedrich Nietzsche
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style. - William Glasser
the death of a great man demands the birth of a great son - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. - Henry Miller
Getting more exercise isn’t only good for your waistline. It's a natural anti-depressant, that leaves you in a great mood. - Auliq Ice
Just remember, the difference between being good versus being great is just a few points, inches, or seconds. - Bruce H. Jackson
When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it. - Joan F. Marques
Life doesn’t always go our way. But one thing we know and can stand upon. Jesus has burst open the gates of LIFE. So we look ahead with great joy. The Story of God is one of hope, promise and life eternal. - Anusha Atukorala
A great leader may be executed in the name of malevolence, yet when his followers look upon his legacy they will see not only the man who once stood, but even more will they see the ideas for which he stood. - Riley Larock
Sometimes great things are best to unleash. - Steven Cuoco
Scripture assumes that we will be afraid and anxious sometimes. What is important is where we turn, or to whom we turn when we are afraid. The God who calls you to trust in Him when you are afraid will spend a great deal of time showing you that you can trust Him. - Edward T. Welch
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The dean put a finger to his chin as he studied this great and troubling mystery. The applicant’s response reeked of insincerity, like, Have a nice day! with all the friendly burned off. Okay, Mr. Darlington. I’ll just be a minute. - Michael Benzehabe
Every great novel begins with a single word. One word, followed by another and another and another. Sentences forming paths to that dream. - Pamela Morris
I was wedded to all the stars of the sky.There was not a single star left, and I married every one of them with great spiritual pleasure. Then I married the moon. - Ibn Arabi
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. - Benjamin Franklin
But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing was to be elegant, generous, plucky, gay, to abandon oneself without a blush to every passion, and to laugh at everything else. - Leo Tolstoy
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about. - Earl Nightingale
Goodness is an open gate to a great life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Art is a passion with great vision and cultural expression. - Debasish Mridha
The thoughts that you think define your life that you live. So have good thoughts to have a great life. - Debasish Mridha
When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. Matthew 2:10 - Matthew 2 10
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny. - Franz Liszt
Don't be sad because I'm dying, be happy because very second another great human being is born, another person that ill have chances to do greater things than me. - Emma Claeys
There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. - Lewis Thomas
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. - G. K. Chesterton
We labor under the great delusion that we are in control. Silly humans. - Toni Sorenson
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can on it. - Danny Kaye
The day you yearn greatly for in your life, will never come so easily as you think without great sacrifice. - Auliq Ice
Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great. - John L. Motley
LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp." -- Calcraft the Hangman. - Ambrose Bierce
The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly. - Theodore Roosevelt
Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do confers no survival benefit in terms presumably salient from the Pleistocene point of view. - Marilynne Robinson
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. - Michael Jordan
Children are great observers. - Lailah Gifty Akita
All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer. - Stephanie Lennox
To have self confidence is great, but to maintain self confidence is even greater - G.S. Alag
Great sex and awesome food is what conquered the beast, not beauty. The key to happiness is to fuck like a porn star and cook like a five star chef. - Travis Luedke
There exists a sacred strength for every great accomplishment. - Lailah Gifty Akita
To be great is to be misunderstood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great is the glory of God. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean wherever my imagination ranges. - Anton Chekhov
If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way. - Habeeb Akande
There is nothing great about having sex or 'not having' sex. - Daya Kudari
The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure. - George Bernard Shaw
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty. - Richard Feynman
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Reading a great novel gives the same feeling you have when you fall in love. - Luigina Sgarro
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. - Robert Frost
There's often a great deception to an eye attraction and to validate HIS point, an invisible Almighty created the beauty in the women to seduce the men. - Anuj Somany
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is that nobody really possesses a great kind of power for long. Those who have it on loan from Fate count on it too much and are themselves destroyed. - Paul Hoffman
You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for. - Maya Angelou
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world. - Mark Twain
Women are great. But I didn't take up acting so I could kiss a girl.
At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
Today is a great day of inspiration and gaining strength to move forward with determination and purpose. - Lee Pryke
Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Bad peoples often hunts past un-resolve haunted projection in other people's life and great peoples forgives haunted instinct nature of bad peoples let go and save the society but this war cycle will never ends. Human forgiveness will have limit. - Atif Iqbal Khan
All great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving. - Paullina Simons
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - Bertrand Russell
The real duty of a motivational speaker and an inspirational writer must be to inspire lives to live and leave distinctive footprints which shall qualify such lives to eternal eternity in the Kingdom of God notwithstanding how minute or great the footprints might be - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. - Samuel Johnson
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities. - Edgar Allan Poe
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it." -- (born June 11 1925) - William Styron
Emptiness is not a great loss. It creates a great opportunity to fill yourself again and again with great love. - Debasish Mridha
It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer - that is, an incompetent practitioner of applied linguistics. - Angela Carter
When you're taught by great people whose milestone achievements has been noted, you could only expect greatness. - Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
Pay great attention to those who love you, and love those who hate you. - Debasish Mridha
We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours. - Marcel Proust
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
Your own thoughts serves as the magnet which attracts units of life from the great ocean of life out there. - Adedayo Olabamiji
After I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I said yes to food, with great enthusiasm. . . . I vowed to taste everything I could eat, rather than focusing on what I could not. - Shauna James Ahern
The idea that Love Must Be Tough dictates that we be willing to set another person free- even if it causes us great pain to let go. When we do this, we maximize the chances that that loved one will not leave, because the cage door has been opened and self-respect has been affirmed. - James Dobson
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it. - Oscar Wilde
Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you. - Meladee McCarty
When evil altars are invoked, great destinies are altered - Steven Chuks Nwaokeke
A great person defines himself; an average person defines others. - Debasish Mridha
I am a great soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
It will be a great day in this world when nobody wants anything because everyone has given and there is nothing left to take. - Anthony Labson
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process. - Shelby Foote
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there. - William Shakespeare
At nineteen, one lives in the utter idolatry, therefore the extreme superstition, of sex. Monstrously exaggerated tales about sexual feats, which we listen to greedily, determine our expectations. The disappointments are correspondingly great. - Gregor von Rezzori
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. - Julia Cameron
To be a great success, be happy today. - Debasish Mridha
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. - John F. Kennedy
You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth - Odysseus Elytis
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you read, you will have great wisdom for great life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness - Jocelyn Murray
The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing. - Robert Collier
To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich. - Garrison Keillor
Lucky nation is the one who has at least one great progressive revolutionary man in its history! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. - Edward Hopper
I'm proud to have been the son of so great a woman. - Reverend Sidney E. Slaton, Cumberland Presbyterian
Great men have great discipline. - Habeeb Akande
The poet or the story-teller who cannot give the reader a little ghostly pleasure at times never can be either a really great writer or a great thinker. - Lafcadio Hearn
When we become acquainted with any person on a human level, even a great enemy, we begin to see that no person is really so different from ourselves. - Bryant McGill
LA needs the cleansing of a great disaster or founding of a barricaded commune.
Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future. - Mehmet Murat ildan
... first learn to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; ... - Friedrich Nietzsche
Meditation is a great tool which can be used to create harmony between the inner subconscious world and the outer chaotic world. - Debasish Mridha
Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great. - Dejan Stojanovic
There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet they leave themselves unnoticed! - Augustine of Hippo
The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable. - Rabindranath Tagore
The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit. - Marya Mannes
No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, the marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, become them with one half so good a grace as mercy does. - William Shakespeare
I dwell on great thoughts.I dwell on positive affirmations. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear. - H.P. Lovecraft
If your Life is full of Sorrow, then beg, steal, or borrow ENTHUSIASM from a great soul to make your Life whole. - - RVM
If you don’t stand sincere by your wordshow sincere can the people be?Take great care over words, treasure them.1.17 - Lao Tzu
Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. - Milan Kundera
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy - Phyllis McGinley
Do not make the Great Commission your Great Omission. - Daryl Baugh
Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens. - Woodrow Wilson
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. - Coretta Scott King
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether. - Alfred North Whitehead
there are no great things in life, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to Meet. - Rodney Masemola
A great book is a homing deviceFor navigating paradise.A good book somehow makes you careAbout the comfort of a chair.A bad book owes to many treesA forest of apologies. - J. Patrick Lewis
Great men know how to control two things; their women and money. - Habeeb Akande
Good leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own. - Roy Bennett
Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement. - Charles F. Kettering
It is a great joy to open a new path; and then, it is a greater joy to see new people on this new path; but the greatest joy is to see the new people opening many more brand new paths via this new path! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Sexuality is general, and although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warm. That's the great generosity of women and the great generosity of the creator who worked it out that way, that there are no unilateral agreements of sexuality. - Leonard Cohen
Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia. - Russell H. Conwell
Disappointments will come, rejection will come, and failures will come in the midst of the fulfilment of your dream. Don't give up, don't give in, try to push little harder; I know it won't be easy to give that push but keep pushing my friend be persistent and you'll see great results. - Euginia Herlihy
A good book is enjoyable. A great book sets off a bomb inside of you. - Ned Hepburn
loneliness is a great teacher and a master test of character - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had to dump him because he stole my inspiration of bent clock*~* .... who cares... - Hiroko Sakai
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. - Henri Matisse
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. - Unknown
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. - Henrik Tikkanen
California is a great place to live if you're an orange. - Fred Allen
Let your work speak for itself:If poor, it will remain silent.If average, it will whisper.If good, it will talk.If great, it will shout.If genius, it will sing. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A great flame follows a little spark. - Dante Alighieri
A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open. - Amit Kalantri
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. - Abraham Lincoln
Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings. - Nema Al-Araby
Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power. - Mahatma Gandhi
Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way - Ronald Reagan
The proud cannot accept the authority of God giving direction to their lives. (See Helaman 12:6.) They pit their perceptions of truth against God’s great knowledge, their abilities versus God’s priesthood power, and their accomplishments against His mighty works. - Ezra Taft Benson
It’s great to earn, but don’t leave it behind for someone else to burn. - RVM
I’ve often said a man’s character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall. So no matter how great the setback, how severe the failure, you never give up. - John Cena
Good authors worry about genres great authors don't. - Frank X. Gaspar
All great truths begin as blasphemies. - George Bernard Shaw
One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek. - Bill Cosby
Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go. - William Shakespeare
The great lie is like a sword that has been thrust into the heart of humankind. - Compton Gage
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. - Benjamin Disraeli
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. - Henry Thomas Buckle
There is a very great difference is there not? between the temporal and the eternal judgments, a very great difference between a man's reputation and a man's character, for reputation is what men think and say of us, while character is what God and the angels know of us. - Price Collier
No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven, its learned not inherited. - Tom Northup
The road that connects our thoughts to the ears of others is our tongue. What travel on this road is our word. Our action is the energy which transmits our emotions to the eyes of others and causes a great change in their minds - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools teach educate us intellectually but not artistically. We learn to deconstruct art, not construct it. - Julia Cameron
Friendship is as great as a True FriendAnd a True Friend is as great as Friendship. - Sharvani Akula
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. - George Eliot
Pursue great things.You are destiny for greatness. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Start Now, close your eyes for few minutes and then open them... so far it's going great... Now just think your three favourite things which you enjoy watching, like for example I like True Crimes, True Stories and so far Suspense. - Deyth Banger
IRRELIGION, n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world. - Ambrose Bierce
Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist. - William Allen White
Great! I’m addressing the King of Altoln…about who knows what, but I’m at the centre of it and everyone’s looking at me now, oh for all the gods’ sake Falchion, swallow it down and say something damn you. - J.P.Ashman
Great ideas doesn't need approvals, they need application. - Amit Kalantri
Abundance of life does not come from having a great job. Abundance comes from generosity. - Debasish Mridha
Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments. - M.A.Kelty
Great humility brings great grace. - Lailah Gifty Akita
What great literature does best is to show us those moments which make life worth living. - Marty Rubin
A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments. - Alain de Botton
The great lie can only be defeated by the New World Order. The sooner the New World Order is established by the institutions of the world, the sooner the suffering caused by the lie will end. - Compton Gage
To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me. - Joe Rogan
O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small. - Old Breton fisherman s prayer
God has given every man incomparably great power to reach the highest calling in life. - Lailah GiftyAkita
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. - David Rockefeller
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old? - Lois McMaster Bujold
With wisdom in your mind,you can perform great deeds.With faith in your heart,you can perform extraordinary deeds.With love in your soul,you can perform remarkable deeds.With God in your life,you can perform supernatural deeds. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The price for Greatness comes with Great loss. - Okisha Jackson
One great thing about love, when you are in love, nothing else matters anymore. - Debasish Mridha
What the great ones do, the less will prattle of - William Shakespeare
The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show. - William Shakespeare
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Every great dream begins with a dreamer - Harriet Tubman
I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious. - Rita Rudner
Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller. - Stefan Fatsis
One of the characteristics of modern political life is its professionalization, such that it attracts mainly the kind of people with so great an avidity for power and self-importance that they do not mind very much the humiliations of the public exposure to which they are inevitably subjected. - Theodore Dalrymple
There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo-Americans...Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world. - Alexis de Tocqueville
It is better to experience than to be told. But it is wiser to learn from the great sacred-souls. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The grace of God transforms the good soul into great soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? - Walt Whitman
America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is moral, not material. we have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man. - Woodrow Wilson
Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice. You have to pay the price to realize your goals. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a great lesson so learn it to be great. - Debasish Mridha
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create. - Maria Montessori
Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. - William Shakespeare
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.
Great knowledge, makes a great pain, in the world of pain. - VicDo
To enjoy a great life, often have a great laugh. - Debasish Mridha
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann
The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as God's especially unchosen.
Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness and hypocrisy. - E.M. Forster
I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. - Mark Twain
I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless. - Albert Camus
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", great story, great film. - Deyth Banger
If there's a god, it knows exactly what it would take to convince me and has refused to provide it. In fact, it has gone to great lengths to hide any evidence of its existence. That doesn't seem like a deity that wants to be worshiped to me. - David G. McAfee
We will all have an end to this journey one day, some will have a great ending some will have it bad, but it’s the journey that they take that matters, in the end. - Zakariyya Sheikh
Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves. - Leah Remini
Remember darlings when your enemies are great God is greater. - Coleen Innis
A great sense of commitment builds a hardworking spirit. - Wayne Chirisa
The universe wants you to succeed. So listen to her deep driving desires and be a great success. - Debasish Mridha
In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out as an individual eminently calculated to do himself credit as a scientific traveler. - Joseph Dalton Hooker
I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me. - Augustine of Hippo
A great library contains the diary of the human race. - George Mercer Dawson
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. - Benjamin Disraeli
By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing. - William Shakespeare
Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family. - Henri J.M. Nouwen
The more you create great music, the more it makes you eager to create more and more - sami abouzid
Behind a great success, there was a great failure - Michael Hermanto
For a great life a road map of life is more important than the journey itself. - Debasish Mridha
Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Every birthday comes with a great purpose and without our knowledge, it makes us wiser. - Debasish Mridha
A great difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life each day in May. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction. - Fulton J. Sheen
In order to become great we must allows others to become great before us, and not be envious of their greatness but rather rejoice in it. So that when we become great, there will be others who shall rejoice in ours. - George Mercado
No one can stop you from having great moments with your kids because they believe the hero inside of you. A kiss and warm hug are sure the best treat and possibly the sweetest but simplest form of them saying how much they love you. - Karl Gornal
Art is great fun but it's not important. What's important is to be healthy and love. - Marty Rubin
You get what you expect in life.Expect great things in life.Live your best life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Is it a fact or have I dreamt it that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? - Nathaniel Hawthorne
OVEREAT, v. To dine. Hail, Gastronome, Apostle of Excess, Well skilled to overeat without distress! Thy great invention, the unfatal feast, Shows Man's superiority to Beast. John Boop - Ambrose Bierce
If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men. - Russell P. Askue
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender. - David Allen
Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it. - Idowu Koyenikan
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill
There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty of form, corresponding and harmonizing with the former, because the same great pattern enters both. - Plato
On Major Depression, quoted by the great of Sophie's Choice & Darkness Visible:From Darkness Visible, "It is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia, wholly unknown to normal life. - William Styron
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom. - Hugo De Groot
Great things are done by a seris of small things brought together. - Vincent Van Gogh
When there is destruction, hope for a great creations. - Debasish Mridha
When you allow God to be manifested through you, you will experience a great joy. - Sunday Adelaja
Excuses; the great chains that entangle purposeful life to the pillar of unpurposeful living - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
In the silence of night, great minds either unite or die - Katja Michael
The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world has ignored is ignorance! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Failure will teach you more wisdom than a great success. - Debasish Mridha
Great nations leave great ruins, great men leave great memories - Habyarimana Bangambiki
A great life begins with a great thought. - Toni Sorenson
Hoping is a great Positive emotion and you must HOPE. But remember, you can’t just Hope for Success, you also have to work for it. - RVM
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. - Homer
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. - Mary Kay Ash
The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality. - Dante Alighieri
To achieve a great success, you must first have yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter! - Mehmet Murat ildan
What is a great success? You haven’t hurt anyone? That is a great success! You haven’t ignored any person? That is a great success! You haven’t lied? That is a great success! You haven’t deceived a person? That’s a great success! And now you see how very difficult to have a real success! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is a great big canvas; throw all tje paint you can at it. - Danny Kaye
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. - Miguel de Cervantes
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work. - Henry Ford
Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old. - L. Frank Baum
I love men. I also hate men; I wouldn't want to be in a world without them but I have to say, it's not a compliment to know a man wants to sleep with you. It's only a compliment when he will go to great lengths for you. - Donna Lynn Hope
If you want to do something great, remember someone out there trying already to get that, I want you to be that some one. - Sivaprakash Sidhu
A good reputation is better than great riches. - Lailah Gifty Akita
It Follows, can become a great story....So far the "Clown", is awesome it shows something incredible... - Deyth Banger
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Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. - William Shakespeare
People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them. - Eucharista Ward
It's political, sir. Apparently he wants a return to the values and traditions that made the city great, sir." "Does he _know_ what those values and traditions _were_?" said Vimes, aghast. - Terry Pratchett
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. - Epictetus
Every time you try and fail,Every time your hope gets stuck in the deeps,And you wonder just how you'd get through the sail-Don't forget that underneath your pain,Is an anchor of great strength and fortitudeKeep digging until you find it...And when you do,RISE! - Chinonye J. Chidolue
I can bow to fear and flee the pursuit of great things. I can bow to God and engage in the pursuit of making things great. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. - Albert Einstein
The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart.
Those who are fond of settling things to rights have no great objection to seeing them wrong. - William Hazlitt
You don’t have to be a rich person to have a great life. You have to be a person of value to enjoy the beauty of life. - Debasish Mridha
A great man is always willing to be little. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a great man to be a good listener. - Calvin Coolidge
When your shoulds finally become musts, that's when you will achieve great change in your life. - Lorri Faye
Courage is not walking into battle with no fear - you should know this as a soldier. Courage is feeling great fear, but walking forward anyway.Lady Lavender by - Lynna Banning
There is no great discoveries and advances, as long as there is an unhappy child on earth. / Ne možemo govoriti o napretku čovječanstva, dok na svijetu ima nesretne djece. - Albert Einstein
Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs. - Samael Aun Weor
It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man--almost rarer--who is great enough to see greatness and say so. - Ayn Rand
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!' - John F. Kennedy
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. - Samuel Johnson
You can start now and create a great future. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Chilling Tales For Dark Nights, these people or let's say these team is trying to return the fear, the theater... Which so far is great to hear, acting in reading a story and everything one place, just awesome, - Deyth Banger
Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all - Benjamin Franklin
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can compare to the feeling evoked by turning the page in a great book. - Aneta Cruz
It is not the difficulty of achieving greatness that stops us but the fear of being great. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I'm leaving. - Steven Wright
When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thing is the chaotic form given to my chaotic experience, which is, as it was for James Joyce, my kind of religion, and necessary for me...as the confession and absolution for a Catholic in church. - Sylvia Plath
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity. - Friedrich Nietzsche
We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath. - Laurence Binyon
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure the comfort. - Humphy Davy
My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be. - Maureen Corrigan
My parents did a great job of creating a home we wanted to return to...and all of our friends wanted to be there too. - Richie Norton
To guess is no good, but to anticipate is GREAT. - Filipe Alou
Be a great artist especially when you draw your life’s picture. - Debasish Mridha
you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. - Les Brown
Today is the best day with great possibilities and opportunities, so change yourself to start a new beginning. - Debasish Mridha
We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one. - Kent Nurburn
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well. - Theodore Roosevelt
Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from "justifying" ourselves. - Friedrich Nietzsche
It’s a great feeling to do what you want and do what you love. Everyone should try it sometime if you’re not doing it already. - Jason Landry
There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol. - Friedrich Nietzsche
It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice. - Kristen Lamb
Giving is an open gate to great life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
What I learned in Rwanda was that God is not absent when great evil is unleashed. Whether that evil is man-made or helped along by darker forces, God is right there, saving those who respond to His urgings and trying to heal the rest. - James Riordan
I've had great success being a total idiot. - Jerry Lewis
a great reason why a gloomy history may repeat itself is that we may have neglected what history did. When we neglect what history did, history visits us in the same cloth - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I think there’s a ton of fear in the perception of romance in part because there’s something very realistic in great romance namely, that women have the right to demand relationships that are based on equality and honesty and trust and, yes, a great sex life. - Sarah MacLean
There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule. - Samuel Butler
He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great. - Herman Melville
The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.
In conditions of great uncertainty people tend to predict the events that they want to happen actually will happen.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. - William James
No truly great one ever argues with a crowd. He chooses out one man, and speaks to him, him only. - Marmaduke William Pickthall
Two great things happened to me. One was that I survived. The other was that I met you, because I knew why - Kamand Kojouri
Writers are sponges. They absorb life, then squeeze and ring it out onto a page. Sometimes, if they squeeze too hard, they dry up. Not hard enough and they remain saturated, heavy and unpredictable, as they carry around a volume of ideas too great for their capacity. - Sarah Colliver
With grace and gratitude, great life evolves. - Lailah Gifty Akita
In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy? - Leslie Caron
The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love. - Andrew Murray
If your Life is full of Sorrow, then beg, steal, or borrow ENTHUSIASM from a great soul to make your Life whole. - RVM
Your mind contains great capital.Your heart contains extraordinary riches.Your soul contains remarkable treasure.Your life contains marvelous wealth. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. - Napoléon Bonaparte
True love propels a person to great feats all without so much as a word. - Joel T. McGrath
To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human...Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.
Men, in general, are but great children.
Your dirty past somehow puts GOD's grace on blast; it amplifies the great grace of GOD over your life. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody. - Harold Ramis
Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process. - Cyril Ponnamperuma
Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones? - Onyi Anyado
There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective? - Jay Woodman
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. - Martha Graham
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. - Doris Lessing
When you really want to find the answers to the great questions of your life, you need to look for them deep in yourself. - Frank Wanderer
It’s a great day to write a best-seller. - Buffy Andrews
Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people. - Robert Higgs
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. - Plato
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. - Thomas H. Huxley
There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place. - Sir Francis Bacon
May God continue to give you much more grace for every great deed. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are. - Swami Vivekananda
Great fiction is the art of a soul. - Douglas Christiansen
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. - J. K. Rowling
There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech… - Dan Stevens
Nothing is more important than a great idea that influenced thedevelopment of civilization. - Eraldo Banovac
And even though they had not had sex yet, he was a great lover, replacing sex with the science of bravery and inner strength. Meredith had always wanted a man with this kind of depth. - Keira D. Skye
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'. - Sir Arthur Eddington
I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it. - Harry S Truman
I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward. - George Washington
A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves. - Jane Austen
In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read and they have been many, big, and heavy I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. - Charles Sanders Peirce
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. - George W. Bush
Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile... it an grow new life. - John Green
A great purpose with great commitment can definitely create a great life with great value - Debasish Mridha
All the great novels are about obsession and people who are obsessed. - Marty Rubin
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. - John W. Gardner
A small rock holds back a great wave. - Homer
And your very flesh shall be a great poem. - Walt Whitman
The more you create great music, the more it makes eager to create more and more - sami abouzid
A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.These two things are one. - Wallace Stevens
You have a great name .. They must kill your name before they can kill you , cuz name is your idea , and ideas are bulletproofs :)) - Hamza wolf
Any work that you are doing at present is a great work. - Sunday Adelaja
Chemistry is great, but eventually your relationship moves out of the laboratory. - Tim Fargo
All attributes of the relative self (prakrut) in the world have arisen due to lack of understanding. All this has arisen due to not understanding the truth. One has been wandering around for countless lives and still one considers oneself so great! - Dada Bhagwan
Even the strongest, most well-built team will, at times, be met with adversity. What makes us great is not that we should anticipate less adversity the stronger that we become, but rather that in anticipation of adversity we become stronger. - - Michael Joling
Education is a great treasure. - Lailah Gifty Akita
There would be no great men if there were no little ones. - George Herbert
Never tell an unnecessary lie; the truth has great authority. The cleverest murders have been caught, not because they told the one essential lie, but because they continued to lie about unimportant detail when the truth could have done them no harm. - P.D. James
There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness. - Seneca
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Morning tide makes a great companion when you don't want to be around people. It soothes and comforts and doesn't ask for anything. - Anna Banks
I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children. - Johann Hari
Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue. - Zelda Fitzgerald
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another…and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.— - Leonard Bernstein
PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three. "Behold great Daubert's picture here on view -- Taken from Life." If that description's true, Grant, heavenly Powers, that I be taken, too. Jali Hane - Ambrose Bierce
The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In the deep places he gives thought to music great and terrible; and the echo of that music runs through all the veins of the world in sorrow and in joy; for if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomed at the foundations of the Earth. - J.R.R. Tolkien
There are two excellent challengers against darkness in this universe: Powerful lights and great ideas! - Mehmet Murat ildan
When I'm good I'm great, when I'm bad I'm excellent. - Mae West
When life is tough, use Cosmic Ordering. When life is great, use Cosmic Ordering. - Stephen Richards
NEWSPAPER: What great paper is the Earth; what a typeface is the Day; what ink is the Night! Everyone prints, everyone reads; no one understands. - Xavier Forneret
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. - Albert Einstein
Everybody dies, but great souls ressurects in our memories. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
It brings tears of joy to a teacher’s eye when the student becomes a great success. - Debasish Mridha
The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain. - George Gordon Byron
Great women aren't born great, they become great. - Sabrina Newby
Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice. - Raheel Farooq
You cannot walk in a great man's shoes without getting sores on your feet. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today. - Edith Hamilton
A diamond is proof that you sometimes have to go through a great deal of pressure before you can shine. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. - Norman Cousins
Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem just like that one thing you want. - Ufuoma Apoki
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. - Ansel Adams
A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art. - William Saroyan
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel. - André Maurois
The reading of great books awaken and brightens the light of my soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Books and school are great for learning but there is no substitute for life and living to provide a real education. - Ken Poirot
I know who I am: a great soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Mind the ground, oh yes check the land before you build that mansion. It is only a fallacy to build a great mansion on a waterlogged land without first attending to the land. You shall only sleep in a mansion with problems! Mind the ground! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us. - Theodore Roosevelt
the sever pain and the great trials we go through teach us the real essence of great joy - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Today, in the face of abjection and solitude, his heart said: 'No'. And in the great distress that washed over him, Mersault realised that his rebellion was the only authentic thing in him, and that everything elsewhere was misery and submission". - Albert Camus
Dream and act HUGE my friends; for to do less is to deny who you are. And live with BOLD conviction as you move forcefully into the certainty of your great success! - Christopher Babson
To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe. - Anatole France
Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul. - Erica Eisdorfer
Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.
Whatever you do, do with great care, great love, and great passion. - Debasish Mridha
When you meet a person as good-hearted as a child, don't ever be selfish, just give them your best and you will become great friends. - Diana Jaber
Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for . His was a great and beautiful spirit, he was a man all man, from crown to footsoles. My reverence for him was deep and genuine. Mark Twain - his
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. - John D. Rockefeller
Whatever we do, we must not treat the Great Commission like it's the Great Suggestion. - Charles R. Swindoll
Handling power is very much like handling explosives, you have to have a great deal of respect for it and most people don't. - R.A.Delmonico
101 Reasons why its great to be a woman:We have an excuse to justify an inordinate indulgence in bitchiness: It's clearly feminine intuition. - Summersdale Publishers
All the stories and poems and letters and oracles and wisdom verses of God's Word, like individual instruments in a great orchestra, serve THE WHOLE story. - James MacDonald
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy. - Stephen Fry
I feel like I am either on the cusp of something great, or standing on the edge of my abyss, discovering something brand new, or uncovering somebody elses lost imagination. - Carroll Bryant
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record. - Green Day
Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings. - Russell Kirk
CLIO, n. One of the nine Muses. Clio's function was to preside over history -- which she did with great dignity, many of the prominent citizens of Athens occupying seats on the platform, the meetings being addressed by Messrs. Xenophon, Herodotus and other popular speakers. - Ambrose Bierce
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. - Saul Bellow
Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future. - Warren Buffett
Where the human need for order meetsthe human tendency to mayhem, where civilization runs smack against its discontents, you find friction, and a great deal of general wear and tear. - Ian McEwan
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer. - Abraham Lincoln
We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed. - Niccolo Machiavelli
When we find that we have been aroused to anger we must call for God's help like the apostles when they were tossed about by the wind and storm on the waters. He will command your passions to cease and there will be a great calm. - Francis de Sales
It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago. - Dan Quayle
With a humble heart, great grace abound. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The future has no memory of your past or present. You are free to make it anything you choose. So make it great! - Meena Sarine
Great art ignites a passion for freedom. - Marty Rubin
Being innovative is to allow yourself to expose your mind to something great that has potential to change lives and the world positively and you take action on it. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Best way to achieve greatness is to serve others with great love. - Debasish Mridha
Cleave to the common good. We are all responsible for bringing about the time of great suffering, for its continuing. - Compton Gage
World will be so beautiful without war.Every child will grow up without fear.Mother will smile; child will play.Friendship will prosper all the way.Love harmony and peace everywhere.It is our hope for our great future. - Debasish Mridha
Because of a great love, one is courageous. - Lao Tzu
Small steps of faith add up to great leaps of success. - Matshona Dhliwayo
One of life's great challenges is getting out of your own way after a divorce or breakup... Heartache and anger make you feel like enemies, but your children need you to be a team. Unfortunately, few rise to this challenge, and the children pay an emotional debt they did not incur. - Steve Maraboli
Seek knowledge from the Great Spirit. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. - Roger de Rabutin de Bussy
Every great artist has the sense of provocation. - Arthur Cravan
How many great gems were lost to thoughtand not put down to pen.You can but think of just a fewand then they're lost again. - L.F. Young
A man works for his own dreams but a great man works for their dreams. - Deshwal Sachin
The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care & reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent. - Bill Gates
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. - Euripides
You have All it takes to be Great, See the unseen, Give the Good in your hand now to Activate that Great Grace for Greatness. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Faith and freedom is great, but it gets nowhere without faith in freedom. - A.E. Samaan
101 Reason why its its great to be a woman : Since the advent of feminism, we can publicly ogle male bodies and not be called sexist. If a man indulges in this behavior over a picture of naked woman, he is a sexist pig, and recompense must be demanded for this slight on womankind. - Summersdale Publishers
Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself, and leave them in no man's hands. - Spurgeon, Charles H.
Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place, The person, manner, and the grace, Which fools neglect; so that we find, If all the requisites are join'd, From whence a perfect joke must spring, A joke's a very serious thing. - Charles Churchill
A great director gives life to a work of art- gives it a heartbeat… a pulse… opens its eyes to the world. - A.D. Posey
In the beginning, the price of giving great love is risking that it won't be returned. Until you understand, of course, that great love is always returned. With interest. - Mike Dooley
The photographer does the world a great disservice when she leaves her camera at home. - Mark Denman
Everyone has a calling. Thus, everyone has the chance to do something remarkable that will make hime great in the eyes of others. - Jawe Querimit
I live my life in widening circlesthat reach out across the world.I may not complete this last onebut I give myself to it.I circle around God, around the primordial tower.I've been circling for thousands of yearsand I still don't know: am I a falcon,a storm, or a great song? - Rilke, Rainer Maria
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. - Danny Kaye
May God give us much more grace to eagerly devote ourselves for the Great Commission. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Greatness often demands great sacrifice. - Debasish Mridha
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. - Enrique Jardiel Poncela
On October 14th, the sweetest thing happened to me. On that day at sunset, I met you by the sea. It was that day I found a great purpose and a wonderful reason to be. - Debasish Mridha
Great habits improve performance and brings great success. - Debasish Mridha
the great mountain when seen from a distance shall always seem closer to us but to get to it, and to climb to its apex to get the best view, we may need to take and experience the real walk with resilience and tenacity. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. - Sydney Smith
I don’t understand why people are always putting us down, instead of encouraging us to become great. Because, when you do become great, you will give me a world that I would not have any other way. We all havesomething to give one another. - Derric Yuh Ndim
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself. - William Hazlitt
If you always lived in comfort you would miss the adventure that is uncomfortable, but of great reward. - Chris Burkmenn
It is easy to conform, but it takes great courage to stand up for peace. - Debasish Mridha
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners. - Zora Neale Hurston
for to the arguments of great thinkers there is no end, the idea of argument itself being a tool to improve the mind, the sharpest of all tools, born of the love of knowledge, which is to say, philosophy. - Salman Rushdie
If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones. - Roy Bennett
Sometimes you wish the world would be a better place and sometimes you wish the world was a better place. Only the great understanding of the difference of the time between the past and present moment will make it a better place. - Jammy Creamer
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen. - Philip K. Dick
When you face a great problem in life, don’t get scared. Consider it a great adventure. Ultimately it will shape your life with charm. - Debasish Mridha
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. - Pythagoras
Be self-responsible. Be less dependent on other people. Aim at being the most responsible person you can be. Read about great, successful leaders. Learn to think great thoughts and work to be an excellent person. - Mark F. LaMoure
Never let anyone distract your focus from accomplishing great opportunities in your life . - Tawana Beecham
In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. - James Madison
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you! - Stormie Omartian
Great difficult is the dogged bedfellow of great wealth, which always renders great wealth as less than great. Yet, great wealth as bequeathed by God is robustly free of such travails, which always renders it greater than great. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Women saying, 'I'm not a feminist' is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe that women should be allowed to leave the house? Do you think that women and men both deserve equal rights? Great, then you're a feminist. - Lena Dunham
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great. - Mark Twain
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. - John le Carre
It took place in the midnight in the University's Great Hall, in a welter of incense, candlesticks, runic inscriptions and magic circles, none of which was strictly necessary but which made the wizards feel better. - Terry Pratchett
Even one day lost in misery is a great loss, for the day will never come back again. You lose 24 hours of happiness, joy & bliss. Live each day in happiness. - RVM
The best advice comes from the one who has made more mistakes– they have learned great lessons! The one who always got it right has surely not lived through the entire experience. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
Great thoughts, great life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Of the animals I saw, I could write volumes. All were wild; for the Great Race's mechanised culture had long since done away with domestic beasts, while food was wholly vegetable or synthetic. - H.P. Lovecraft
No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it. - Edgar Allan Poe
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Your life can be a great success or it can be a disaster. Be careful with the choices you make. - Debasish Mridha
The Great Commission is a devotion to study of Scriptures, preaching and teaching of the gospel of salvation. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it. - Orison Swett Marden
He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. - John Ruskin
I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life. - Toni Morrison
A great idea always begins with unbounded inspiration. - Roshan Kolar
People that are scared of the dark have great imaginations and are my kind of people. Those who see nothing in the darkness are boring. - Stewart Stafford
Great obstacles are no match for a great God. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had. - David Lynch
Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you? - William Hundert - The Emperors Club
The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness. - William Hazlitt
My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert. - Meryl Streep
Water has no hands,but carries great ships.Air has no shoulders,but carries large planes.The Sun has no eyes,but finds its way around the universe. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Winning is great, but if it's not enough then then you'll never have enough! - Stephen Richards
Every great leader can take you back to a defining moment when they decided to lead - John Paul Warren
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. - Sydney Smith
The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. - Matt Taibbi
Beside every great writer is a great listener. - Nanette L. Avery
Wisdom is the adobe of a great mind. - Debasish Mridha
Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils - Francis Bacon
Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes. - Israel Shenker
There are problems and there are problems. One big problem and a great paradox in the arena of life is the problem of where or how a person is now and where or how he wants to be tomorrow. Had it not been this problem, we would have been relaxing all day long - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The greater the destiny, the greater obstacles you’ll have to overcome. No great destiny comes without great challenges and sacrifices. - Jeanette Coron
Teaching is not only a profession, but it a is a purpose of a great life. - Debasish Mridha
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night. - Friedrich Nietzsche
The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends. - Charles de Gaulle
Pride does not only come with great responsibility. It is buy one get one free. Great responsibility will require great resourcefulness. - Janna Cachola
If you really want to understand God then remove everything that is common between God and humans like mind, heart, body, emotions etc. Because if you are thinking like that for him then you underestimated him to a great extent. - Aishwarya Shiva Pareek
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state... - James Clerk Maxwell
All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them. - James Hudson Taylor
Learn with great passion.Learn with great enthusiasm. - Lailah Gifty Akita
As your faith is strengthened, you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will and that you will flow with them to your great delight and benefit. - Emmanuel Teney
There is a great difference between enlightenment and education. The former is a discerned vital knowledge without guidance while the latter is imparting any knowledge. - Uzoma Nnadi
I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Selma and show their indignation about the injustices against the African-Americans. - Amelia Boynton Robinson
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. - Marya Mannes
A great place to work is one in which you trust the people you work for, have pride in what you do, and enjoy the people you work with. - Robert Levering
A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men. - Georges F. Doriot
when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus - Corrie ten Boom
An old horse, an old bird, an old man, an old tree, they all represent a great survival in the jungle of cosmos; they deserve to be applauded and respected! - Mehmet Murat ildan
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war. - Abraham Lincoln
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be. - Rosalynn Carter
Making others better is a core value of a great life. - Todd Stocker
Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great! - Mehmet Murat ildan
No, it is remrable that everest did not yield to the first few attempts; it would have been suprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains.
Àlways remember to make it a great day. - Char
Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God. - Stormie Omartian
Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences. - Tim Fargo
Whatever happened to you yesterday no longer matters. Be present. Today is going to be a great day. - Karen A. Baquiran
A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke - Vincent Van Gogh
They will kill a great many of us. We will kill a few of them. They will tire of it first.
Your healing begins with a step of faith in the Great Physician, Jesus Christ. - Hector Perez
I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight - Nirad C. Chaudhuri
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. - Madeleine L'Engle
A man’s greatness is neither determined by having great dreams nor by his determination to realize them; but by his contribution - however small may be - to the progression of the humanity, without forgetting other creatures as well! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
I find the great in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Being Friends with you was great but now we will be lovers. - V.Kuotsu
The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing. - Hazrat Inayat Khan
People don't want words, as seductive, pleasant and warming as they can be. People want to see that they're worth some sacrifice or some great deed. And it's not that people are always worth it, it's that love is. - Donna Lynn Hope
During my PhD, I was depressed for eight-months, state of deep-worry. The stressful life leads to neglect of spirituality and wellness. I recovered by inspiration of great souls, friends and family. Ever since, I have sought spirituality of soul and well-being over all other things. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Scripture is our norming norm and tradition is our normed norm and that in a doctrinal controversy Scripture alone has absolute veto power while The Great Tradition (orthodox doctrine) has a vote but not a veto. - Roger E. Olson
It is one of life's great ironies that most people's only connection to success is their attachment to the pain of not having achieved it. - Stephen Smoke
A great artist paints a picture on the canvas of his mind using the colors of his love and imagination before transferring the image onto a real canvas. - Debasish Mridha
When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits - not animals. - Winston Churchill
Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable. - Azar Nafisi
TreeIt is foolishto let a young redwoodgrow next to a house.Even in this one lifetime,you will have to choose.That great calm being,this clutter of soup pots and books--Already the first branch-tips brush at the window.Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life. - Jane Hirshfield
Be great, read great books. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to go, and laugh at the people who take it seriously. - Richard P. Denney
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. - Albert Einstein
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. - Washington Irving
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. - Maximilien Robespierre
Giving is an open gate to a great life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. - Lord Acton
There's great power in not fearing solitude. You don't allow yourself to be treated like crap because you're afraid of the alternative. - S. Usher Evans
Too much work will create too much motivation for the strong, and a big collapse for the weak! Strength gets great strength from the challenges! - Mehmet Murat ildan
There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent.
Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up. - Shannon L. Alder
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. - Rosalynn Carter
Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[...] Because if the food wasn't under lock and key, Julie, who would work? - Daniel Quinn
In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should pointout to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions isnot that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generatethem. - Pierre Trudeau
I don't have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I'm out in nature. It's just something that's bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it's enough for me. - Jane Goodall
Perhaps in the end, it should be left alone as a reminder that life isn't perfect, but even with it's imperfections it is worthwhile and enjoyable. Wouldn't it be great if more people thought that? - Artemus Withers
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment. - Saint Bernard
A show of daring oft conceals great fear. - Lucan
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. - Maya Angelou
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. - Edmund Burke
Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!! - Abhijeet Sawant
I go to seek a Great Perhaps. - François Rabelais
Commitment to ourselves, our families, and our business is paramount to being successful. Human should be committed to rolling out great products, services and initiatives that impact those personal and professionals encounters which cross our path. - Sameh Elsayed
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day. - Albert Camus
Leo had seen Tia Callida in action; she liked knives, snakes and putting babies in roaring fires. Yeah, definitely let's unleash her rage. Great idea. - Rick Riordan
I don't throttle and smother people in my life.. Not because I don't have my own fair share of doubts and sometimes, yes, insecurities.. But I have a great deal of confidence in my instincts that I've chosen the right one to trust.. When I trust, I do so with my whole heart.. - Laarni Venus Marie Giango
Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating characters and side benefit the skills you develop will give you greater compassion, insight and range with the people you create on the page or run into off of it. - Jerry Stahl
Before and after you do your best, know it that you must rely on God. Your best - no matter how great - is nothing if you minus God from the equation. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Success is a great deodorant. - Elizabeth Taylor
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. - W. Clement Stone
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. - Robert J. Sawyer
Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift. - Robin Williams
If your vision is great, you become great. - Debasish Mridha
I dwell on great thoughts. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Thought for the day: Twitter...140 character limit...must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers... - E.A. Bucchianeri
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. - Mark Twain
Having a Great Ambition is also a Meditation. When our efforts are focussed sincerely, even during sleep, our brains will work on it, in the form of Dreams. - Dinesh Kumar Radhakrishnan
The virtues of character, behavioural patterns determine how great a nation and people are. - Sunday Adelaja
The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society—and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding. - William H. Whyte
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. - C. H. Parkhurst
That’s great, Grace, but in case you’ve forgotten, we’re supposed to kill vampires, not play nice and have lunch with them. - Archer - K.A. Last
I am grateful for all the chances I took which lead to a great paths. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The best adventures in life is in the present. Seize the present and make it great adventure. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting. Perhaps we're asking for something good when God's will is that we be given something great. - Marianne Williamson
There's a great woman behind every idiot. - John Lennon
Insanely Great! - Steve Jobs
Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be simple but think great to be great. - Debasish Mridha
...hell was a great fiery-hot music hall, he thought, where untuned instruments scraped and shrieked in diabolical cacophany... - Annie Proulx
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. - Gerald R. Ford
Anyway, it's a good thing we're human. We design business spreadsheets, paint programs, and word processing equipment. So that tells you where we're at as a species. What is the search for the next great compelling application but a search for the human identity? - Douglas Coupland
Watching the infinite horizons gives you infinite dreams, infinite ideas, infinite paths! Choose a great target and then you will see that great instruments will appear for you to reach that target! - Mehmet Murat ildan
And finally, I've always drawn a great deal of moral comfort from Humpty Dumpty. The part I like the best? 'All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.' That's because there is no Humpty Dumpty, and there is no God. None, not one, no God, never was. - George Carlin
Many people think of similar great things, but only the few act on it; which makes them great. - Pontius Joseph
The surest way to damage society is to call for a "great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise. - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
Great art is an escape from the agony of why. - Robert A. Kearse
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. - Aristotle
Money doesn't make a bad life good, it makes a good life great. - Bradley Wright
Peace is a new father Searching for a jobWith courage and vigorWith a smile and rigorBut with a great need for money. - Debasish Mridha
Life may not have dealt you a great set of cards... but who says the one with better cards will win? - Manoj Vaz
When life throws shit at you, grow great, big, fuck off roses. - Heather Hill
Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for. - Roy Bennett
two great questions exist in each day; 'what must I do excellently today?' for morning and 'what did I do wrong or right today?' for evening. When we fail to know the real reasons why we wake up each day and why we retire at night, we fail to know the real reasons why we live. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When along the pavement,Palpitating flames of life,People flicker around me,I forget my bereavement,The gap in the great constellation,The place where a star used to be - D.H. Lawrence
To love someone is the most beautiful adventure but to be loved by some one is a great reward. - Debasish Mridha
To be a great success detect the problem, find the solutions, never complain, but never forget to compliment someone. - Debasish Mridha
I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps beyond words to take yourself through the day as you would with your most beloved mental-patient relative, with great humor and lots of small treats. - Anne Lamott
It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great. - Alain de Botton
How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex? - Julia Child
Great men are made in the crucible of experiences - Osho Samuel Adetunji
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. - Edmund Burke
My life has been one great big joke,A dance that's walked,A song that's spoke,I laugh so hard I almost choke,When I think about myself. - Maya Angelou
A person who has proper guidance from his or her early childhood can himself or herself expanding his or her horizons living in a well established environment with great level of knowledge and being financially stable. - Saaif Alam
The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions. - Debasish Mridha
Never under-estimate your effort, no matter how little. Every effort, little or great is a step closer towards the actualisation of your dreams. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
Last night, I spoke to God.I told Him my plans. He started to cry.I thought I was great to move The Greatest to tears.He said that He was crying only becausemy plans were very differentthan His plans for me. - Kamand Kojouri
There are great virtues in a conservative attitude towards structural features of government. The sudden abandonment of institutions is an act that reverberates in ways no one can predict and many come to regret. - Alexander Bickel
Your process is what determines the weight of your journey. Submit to your process so that your journey can be great. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. - Orison Swett Marden
To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. - Winston Churchill
One does not become a great swimmer by swimming in shallow waters. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. - Earl Nightingale
The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years. - C.S. Lewis
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. - Thomas Fuller
Trust in humanity, she is only in her infancy, she will grow to be great and trustworthy. - Debasish Mridha
The doctors cannot make the ignorant think, cannot hope to bring home the sufferings of millions; only one of ourselves can someday do that...It will need great courage but it will be done, because all things must work toward ultimate good; there is no real wastage and no destruction. - Radclyffe Hall
During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened. - Winston S. Churchill
Focus on greatness to be great. - Debasish Mridha
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. - Camille Paglia
I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced of why I must retire for the day - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. - Sylvia Plath
Glorify what is great not what is important. - Debasish Mridha
Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. - E.L. Konigsburg
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
All the sounds of this valley run together into one great echo, a song that is sung by all the spirits of this valley. Only a hunter hears it. - Chaim Potok
Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed - personally and professionally. Even the so-called 'solo star' has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries of which the world is full, and he who can draw it away from before his eyes, as one draws away a hand, beholds the great shining of the inner worlds. - Rabbi Nachman de Bratslav
Your primary goal should be to have a great life. You can still have a good day, enjoy your child, and ultimately find happiness, whether your ex is acting like a jerk or a responsible person. Your happiness is not dependent upon someone else.
Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forgotten deceive themselves. - Niccolò Machiavelli
Great minds find beauties and appreciate it. Average minds find commonalities and compare. Small minds find the problems and criticize. - Debasish Mridha
To a great mind , nothing is little - Sherlock Holmes
Silence is a source of Great Strength. - Lao Tzu
Great habits sharpen our thoughts and make us great. - Debasish Mridha
Love! Love everything, love every event, love every moment and become a great lover. Love liberates the soul of the beloved lover. - Debasish Mridha
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock
Live for great hope and the beauty of dreams. - Debasish Mridha
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. - Ansel Adams
The great mentor is master builder of great students. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The power of the human mind is unstoppable. It can make bad things Great and good things Worst! Use it accordingly. - myselfRMD - Rose De Matta
We rise, we fall.Life is a lesson.But, if not lived with the heart,holds no depth, no meaning.We must feel pain, to feel the joy, to feel the pain, and so on, so forth.It requires great courage.I try with all my mightto hold gratitude in the lesson.Thank you universe for showing mefor teaching me. - Akiroq Brost
Great praxis demands great piety. - Sallie McFague
You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal. - François Lelord
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. - Plato
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. - John Muir
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France
A great chunk of our lives is wasted on thoughts that bring nothing. We all think about something but, in the end, we only close the day thinking a lot and doing nothing but little. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Destination is, ideally, where one should stop; and ideally, one should not stop. Practically, destination of a great man is where he wants to stop; of a common man, where he has to. The one ends with Will, the other with Reason. Morality is always pursued, never reached! - Raheel Farooq
No man is a great man if he used violence to achieve his goals! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Give up good to welcome great. - Debasish Mridha
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
I consider myself a green party supporter...because green represents my favorite color other than clear. And I met a guy who was running for the green party this one time, and he seemed like he had a great head on his shoulders for a homeless guy. - Vernon D. Burns
Ambition is the driving engine behind every great success. - Debasish Mridha
The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home. - Mark Denman
Every great achiever knows the power of motivation. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. - Jacqueline Bisset
Inspiration is the seed of imagination, where great ideas bloom - Jennifer Sodini
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. - Henrik Ibsen
No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty. - Leon Wieseltier
Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.So be passionate and write a great story. - Debasish Mridha
No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Whatever your problems may be, they pale in insignificance in the light of eternity. No matter how great your failures, God's grace is greater still. Lift up your heart and face life head-on. - Prince Akwarandu
A great teacher is the architect of a great future. - Debasish Mridha
Fascinated by the great symbols of the collective history, I use them as an alphabet to communicate. - Nuno Roque
All great religions hold the power to enslave & the power to enlighten... - Simon Boylan
Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to tell too much. We aren’t satisfied unless at the end of the story the characters are lying there, panting. - Roman Payne
"Know thyself," said the old philosopher, "improve thyself," saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools. - William Shakespeare
Great literature is simply charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound
A great Country is not the Country with a great population,but a Country with a great number of persons that believe in entrepreneurship. - Auliq-Ice
The Christian journey is truly an exciting endeavor be-cause we become eyewitnesses to the holy activity of a wonderful God in our lives on a daily basis. One of the great marvels of the faith is that we are transformed into testifiers of His strength and grace in the midst of major obstacles. - Malcolm Walls
Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs - Karl Lagerfeld
When you are beloved and happy, you are a great success. - Debasish Mridha
Life should be great rather than long. - B.R. Ambedkar
There's no weakness as great as false strength. - Stefan Molyneux
The great end of life is not knowledge but action. - Thomas H. Huxley
Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way. - George Weigel
He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One - Said Nursî
When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara one of the great prophets of Christian "Liberation theology". - Dom Helder Camara Archbishop of Recife in Brazil
It feels great to read but greater to write. - Lailah Gifty Akita
For a nation to be truly great, she must first identify her national values, enumerate her virtues and formulate her value system. But the most tasking of all these is to develop a culture in her people, that will best represent the proclaimed value systems of the nation. - Sunday Adelaja
Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate record of the experience of what one isn't, of what one doesn't know. A great drawer is either confirming beautifully what is commonplaceor probing authoritatively the unknown.::: ::: - Brett Whiteley
No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God. - Leo Tolstoy
If there is ever a magical beauty that can be watched hours with great admiration, and that is the beauty of a strong light falling from the everlasting skies into the heart of the dimness! - Mehmet Murat ildan
We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes. - George R.R. Martin
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore. - Edith Wharton
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity. - Napoléon Bonaparte
I'm named after my great grand-mother...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity. - Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War
How we walk with the broken speaks louder than how we sit with the great. - Anonymous
Your purpose is great than your problems. - John Paul Warren
The great god Ra whose shrine once covered acres Is filler now for crossword-puzzle makers.
The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement. - Don Roff
Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen. - Phil Cooke
Words are a great influence in actions, feelings, and simply just the meaning behind it. - Yi
Christianity would have lacked a great essence without the Bible. A Christian who seldom devotes a little time to read the Bible is with a great question mark. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Be self-responsible. Avoid dependency on other people. Aim at being the most successful person you can be. Read about great, successful people. Learn to think great thoughts and work to become an excellent person. - Mark F. LaMoure
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit." ~ - Emmanuel
Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
Who are we to think we deserve anything? What makes us so great? No one is "lucky" to have us. We are all full of it. - Donna Lynn Hope
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one. - Adolf Hitler
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. - Shelley Winters
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes. - Robert Olen Butler
Our great weariness comes from work not done. - Eric Hoffer
A great leader never fears criticism and welcomes them with openness and love as if they are the beauty of the journey. - Debasish Mridha
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
ALL things great are wound up with all things little. - L. M. Montgomery
A simple act of kindness could be the source of great happiness. - Debasish Mridha
My world view is somewhat unique. I have learned from many great philosophers including Plato, Socrates, Buddha, Jesus, Darwin, Tagore, Emerson, and many more. - Debasish Mridha
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."[Letter, November 1856] - Hector Berlioz
MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America. - Ambrose Bierce
The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law. - Andrew Jackson
One of the hallmarks of great men is that they never make us conscious of their presence, instead they dwelve into our unconscious state and transform into conscious being! - Ramana Pemmaraju
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. - William Hazlitt
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies
Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private rants of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia. - Russell H. Conwell
Great faith equals great power. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I believe having a great diversity of teachers is harmful and confusing for a young mind, in the same way I believe that it is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially - Donna Tartt
Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Great necessities call out great virtues. - Abigail Adams
To reveal your greatness, don’t wait for a great opportunity. Find a simple opportunity to care and share your great love. - Debasish Mridha
Who is considered a great man is the one who can be the smallest of the small. - Dada Bhagwan
When we are truly aware of great abundance in our life, feel grateful and express gratitude for those treasures and beauty, then we are fully living. - Debasish Mridha
Being a newspaper columnist is like marrying a nymphomaniac - It's great for the first two weeks.
Greatest companion is found in reading great books. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Writing is not about the voices in your head, but the voices that make the great leap to the page. - J.H. Glaze
Greatness demands great courage. - Debasish Mridha
Information is nutrition, knowledge is nutrition, art is nutrition and they set us free. Internet is a great library, great library is a freedom within wisdom in this digital age - Baris Gencel
It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any. - Charles Bukowski
It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world. - Orison Swett Marden
Persist with great passion and fulfill your great dreams. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good. - Colbie Caillat
One who has great faith has great power. - Matshona Dhliwayo
No one can stop you from having great moments with your kids because they believe the hero inside of you. A kiss and warm hug are sure the best treat and possibly the sweetest but simple form of them saying how much they love you. - Karl Gornal
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.
A tapping foot isn’t the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The impact of music is so great that you'll leave your book and start dancing. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Sex and violence ... are the two great engines of the world. - James Carlos Blake
I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He dropped the Polaroid and keeled over and so did the hooker. It would have taken me half an hour to untie myself and call the paramedics, but fortunately the Great Dane could dial. - Joan Rivers
Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor. - Horace Mann
I was starting to hate my sixteenth birthday. A poufy white dress and a cake with roses made out of pink icing and awkward dancing with boys in awkward suits was starting to sound like a great alternative. Seriously. Sign my up, I wouldn't even complain. - Alyxandria Harvey
Everyone comes to this world with one great purpose. That is to serve others. - Debasish Mridha
In the time of to Augustine, the conversation in the West mostly had been a Christian reaction to outside ideas. After Augustine, the Great Conversation would be about his ideas for centuries. - John Mark Reynolds
You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it. - Larry Page
It's not how great the ideas are. It's about how you write them, to make them great. - Primadonna Angela
Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you - Rashedur Ryan Rahman
You don't need great faith to move mountains, you only need to use the poor faith you say you have. - Neil Velez
Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism. - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Art is, after all, only a trace like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness. - Robert Henri
There's a pinch of the madman in every great man. - Unknown
There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool. - Edward Teller
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page. - Saint Augustine
If only you can add just one great and distinctive thing to your life each day, you shall surely not just live and leave one great thing! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination. - Desi Puspitasari
Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
To be a great warrior is not enough. Flesh and blood, however skilled, can be destroyed... you must be more than just a man in minds of your opponents. - Compton Gage
Even one day lost in misery is a great loss, for the day will never come back again. You lose 24 hours of happiness, joy & bliss. Live each day in happiness. - - RVM
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." - Samuel Johnson
The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist. - Amit Kalantri
Indiscretions can lead to great lessons. - Julieanne O'Conner
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves. - Blaise Pascal
Every book is a great action and every great action is a book! - Martin Luther
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. - Helen Keller
One of great arts of communication is the skill of listening to people - Sunday Adelaja
If you associate with eagles, you will learn how to soar to great heights. But if you run with dogs, you will learn how to bark. - Ojo Michael E.
Great compassion makes a peaceful heart. A peaceful heart makes a peaceful person. A peaceful person makes a peaceful family. A peaceful family makes a peaceful community. A peaceful community makes a peaceful nation. A peaceful nation makes a peaceful world. - Maha Ghosananda
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. - Henry Ford
At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent. - Aryn Kyle
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. - John Lennon
Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit. - Harlan Ellison
The Master said, If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment. - Confucius
We often settle for what's available and what's available isn't always great. You are destined to achieve greatness! - Farshad Asl
Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds. - Charles Fox
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become. - Brooke Foss Westcott
Proverbs 16:3 'Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and He will establish your plans.' A great reminder when planning out the school year. - Tamara L. Chilver
If you have a great vision and are ready for a passionate mission, they you are a leader. - Debasish Mridha
They never fail who die in a great cause. - George Gordon Byron
All of us sport an invisible sign around our necks -- AS IS. It means, take me as I am. I may not become what you want me to be. And I’m far, far from perfect. But I have some great qualities, too, as well as my share of faults. You will have to take me AS IS and I’ll take you that way, too. - Steve Goodier
Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies. The beauty of Christmas is that God steps over precipices. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Love is the source of great power and great strength. - Debasish Mridha
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.
To have abundance, appreciate what you have with great love and share your possessions with joy. - Debasish Mridha
Set great expectations for yourself. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Begin to chase your dreams with great passion. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Think big.Dream great dreams.Take action to realize your dreams. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Folly, like its consequences, is dreadful.Wisdom, like its rewards, is great. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Great God of wonders:God has always acted in my point of need. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I believehaving a great diversity of teachers is harmful and confusing for a young mind, in the same way I believe that it is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially - Donna Tartt
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends are great and always seem to work by the appropriate will of God.
Average people have a world view that says being comfortable with who and where they are in life is the key to happiness. The great ones have a world view that says happiness is learning, growing and becoming. - Steve Siebold
Honesty is one of the key elements to a great relationship. If you cannot be honest with your partner, stay single. - Kemi Sogunle
A fundamental shift of our perceptions and consciousness are necessary for any great improvements for mankind. - Debasish Mridha
Lying for lying's sake is the inspiration behind all great fiction. - Marty Rubin
Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often. - Wayne Gerard Trotman
Words are the great temptation. - Marty Rubin
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. - George Jean Nathan
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. - Theodore Roosevelt
Nobody wants great things for you. They all want you to be something they deem important for them. - Abhijit Naskar
Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt
‎At the end when you cut to the bone,we're all essentially the same; we are women of great expectations - Inji Amr
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. - Mark Twain
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. - Sir Winston Churchill
We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough. - Rabbi Harold Kushner
There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary. - Matt Chandler
The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit. - Ashley Montagu
Individualistic people die on the great curves - saqib abraham
A great sage is like a tree, he lives just to help others, just to make this world beautiful. - Debasish Mridha
Great leaders do not fear challenges, because challenges don't break leaders but sharpens them. - Gugu Mona
Anticipating God's blessings is a great way to begin a new week! When we look for the things that could go wrong, we just may find what we had been looking for. - Diane K. Chamberlain
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great. - Havelock Ellis
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. - Robert Frost
Where would this country be without this great land of ours? - Ronald Reagan
Short stories are great start, but if they are true that's the best start so far in about 222 short stories I have viewed and I have already shared them in the book series Reddit Collection. - Deyth Banger
The truth came to me-a great revelation, showing me that I have a child to the Jones whole and perfect mind, created to express the health that God with. - Myrtle Filmore
only if we act greatly in meeting our responsibilities abroad will we remain a great nation, and only if we remain a great nation will we act greatly in meeting our challenges at home - Richard M. Nixon
I like stories about supervillains. They teach children that you can accomplish great things even when the whole world is against you. - G.D. Falksen
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum. - Frederick Douglass
To do a great right, do a little wrong. - William Shakespeare
Am not great, but being the story of every whisper is just the greatest. - Ahmed Farrag
Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world.Yeah, I know there are more important things.But don't forget to remember me. - Carrie Underwood
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence. - Henrik Tikkanen
Live each day with great love, hope and faith. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I want to stand on the belief that great things are the product of ordinary people who are made great when they stand. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Those who suffer great adversity and sorrow and go on to serve their fellowmen develop a great capacity to understand others. Like the prophets, they have acquired a higher understanding of the mind and will of Christ. - CARLOS H. AMADO
To have the beginning of a truly great story, you need to have a character you're completely and utterly obsessed with. Without obsession, to the point of a maddening addiction,there's no point to continue. - Jennifer Salaiz
Let's forgive someone for Valentines day, it's a great way to show love, and forgive yourself too for the hurt you held onto. - Jay Woodman
Today is your wright-time. Anything worth writing will be, or has been written already. A great story chooses its writer lest no wright should boast. Just write! If you don't, you will come right in contact with your thoughts someplace soon. - Amah Lambert
Now is much better then was, and if and when aren't as great as now - yet. - Rodney Richards
the Great Vaccination the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia. - Álvaro de Campos
Since I will never know what the future holds, I choose to live my life expecting great things - Meena Sarine
A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There was never a great genius without a touch of madness. - Ben Jonson
The day is short, the labor vast, the toilers idle, the reward great, and the Master urgent. - Tarphon
France is like a great compass, which ever way they point to, go the complete opposite direction and you'll be fine. - P. J. O'Rourke
A great teacher is one that helps their students to become great. In return, the students appreciate the teacher for their success. - Debasish Mridha
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually. - William Ellery Channing
Meeting the other person half way is great, but the profit starts just beyond this point. - R.A.Delmonico
You have to be a great lover to be a beloved. - Debasish Mridha
CAMEL, n. A quadruped (the _Splaypes humpidorsus_) of great value to the show business. There are two kinds of camels -- the camel proper and the camel improper. It is the latter that is always exhibited. - Ambrose Bierce
What I like most about children is that they are great advisors, yet they don't know it. And what I love about them is that they are vision bearers yet may not realize it. - Gugu Mona
If you fail, let the world knows the reasons of your failure; if you win, let the world knows the secrets of your victory! This is a great way to be useful for others! - Mehmet Murat ildan
A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is enter into it. - D.L. Moody
Gratitude is a prayer of an appreciating heart for the great gift of life and its endless treasures. - Debasish Mridha
You don't get great art by playing it safe. - Stewart Stafford
A little amount of secret is a great pillar of the mind. He who does not have what somebody does not know, have what everybody knows. Know your secret; keep your secret. He who knows what to keep, knows what real life is all about - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. - John Lennon
Desire great things in life.Expect great things in life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it. - Vladimir Lenin
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. - John Burroughs
Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect. - Gordon Atkinson
A delight to read is a great treasure. - Lailah Gifty Akita
He who despises a poor man’s wisdom has turned away great riches. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A great mentor is full of understanding, trust, respect and willing to help his/her mentees to reach the right direction in life. - Euginia Herlihy
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life.""I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think. - Jane Austen
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. - William Shakespeare
It is never too early and never too late to try your best. What you like or what you love will be a great success. - Debasish Mridha
Looking for a good book to read and a great teacher to listen to? Here is a good book and here is a great teacher: Other cultures! To read this book and to listen to this teacher, all you need is to travel! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Material wealth alone is not enough to build a great nation. - Sunday Adelaja
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
Great leaders passed away, politicians made their way. - yssubramanyam
...still, I’m lucky: I feast on solitude, I will never miss the crowd. I could read the great books but the great books don’t interest me. I sit in bed and wait for the whole thing to go one way or the other. just like everybody else. - Charles Bukowski
One more soldier of the Cross has taken up his crown; one more beloved member of our church has gone to the great assembly above; one more Christian has triumphed in the living Faith; one more flower is planted and harvested in the garden of God's Kingdom. - Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds, Cumberland Presbyterian
Great ideas and small consistent actions with love can change the world from above. - Debasish Mridha
Great moment, unforgettable memory. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
The day you give priority to bogus ethics over human reactions, you become a loser. Human reactions are priceless. Rules should never, ever stifle emotions. Tennis is a very human game facing a great danger that it will be strangulated in a cat's cradle of unnecessary or inhumane rules. - Ted Tinling
I have nothing but a great head to offer.Is that enough? - Sola Kosoko
Heart thoughts are profound, hindsight aches and hope is obscure. I'm craving a great adventure -- one that leads me back home. - Donna Lynn Hope
A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation. - Saadi
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. - Sir Joshua Reynolds
No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ludicrous fools who sometimes hoped to achieve some ideal by fiat, by their great desire for it. But usually by bullying all mankind into believing them. - Saul Bellow, Herzog
Embrace today! Embrace the new day! Yesterday is gone forever. Tomorrow is not guaranteed. All we have is now and a great day to look forward to. Today is the day the Lord has made. Rejoice and be glad in it! - DeWayne Owens
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. - William James
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. - Dante Alighieri
Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want the best of the best, not the best of a bad situation. - Zack W. Van
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into creating great images. Worry about your images, not your equipment. - Ken Rockwell
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. - Helen Keller
If you have a plan and you don't even SHOW IT, you are just like someone born to be great and don't even KNOW IT. - Israelmore Ayivor
Never shall a young man,Thrown into despairBy those great honey-colouredRamparts at your ear,Love you for yourself aloneAnd not your yellow hair. - W.B. Yeats
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results. - Jerry Flint
adversity is a great tool to self discovery. - Lailah Gifty Akita
For those who have a great attitude, their life fills with an abundance of beauty, which deserves gratitude. - Debasish Mridha
The insights given by a great professor are a privilege to receive. To be a teacher, by contrast, calls for more ingenuity and patience; it is the canny art of coaxing insights out of the students themselves. - Caitlin Keiper
Then Martine said: "So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?"Poor?" said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. "No, I shall never be poor. I told you that I am a great artist. A great artist, Mesdames, is never poor.We have something, Mesdames, of which other people know nothing. - Karen Blixen
We feel happy when we accomplish something great, and our hearts filled with satisfaction about what we achieved - Abdulkareem Bkar
Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. - Oscar Wilde
To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
When the soul is set on fire, great things manifest. - Lailah Gifty Akita
If we want our nations to be truly great we must lay less emphasis on material wealth, natural resources or even human resources. - Sunday Adelaja
Every great achiever nurtures a positive mindset. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth. - Lady Gaga
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality... for one very rich man, there must be at least five hundred poor. - Adam Smith
God promised you to give you dreams and visions, see Him as your great dream/vision giver. - Euginia Herlihy
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. - Victor Hugo
Anyone with great ambition, great vision, and great passion can be a great person. - Debasish Mridha
Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don’t know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Everything you need is already within you. The beauty of life is that your DESTINY lies always in your hands. The time has come for you to STEP UP and BE GREAT - Pablo
To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor. - Stacey T. Hunt
What is in great demand, but scarce, is expensive, but even when wisdom is not in demand it is priceless. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Little faith sees God's hand in great things. Established faith sees God's hand in little things. - Ralph Bouma
If you ever get a high official position in your country, you must see the interests of the humanity much more important than the interests of your own country; only then you will deserve to be called a great man! - Mehmet Murat ildan
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. - Anthony Trollope
In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction. - C.S. Lewis
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. - Art Spander
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - Henry James
Three great lessons for my children; love God, love yourself and love your neighbour as yourself. - Lailah Gifty Akita
If the teachings of the early Christians changed Rome and the entire Roman Empire, we can’t point to any great change that the teachings coming from our pulpits today are producing upon our world in general - Sunday Adelaja
You'll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step. - Hannah Harding
Do it with great love or forget it. - Debasish Mridha
Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others. - Anonymous
Learn,learn and relearn: become a great scholar. - Lailah Gifty Akita
With grace and gratitude, great lives evolve. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I am a great lover. - Lailah Gifty Akita
She was supportive, didn’t pry or expect anything from me, and sensed when I needed my space. If she were a guy, I’d probably date her. Or, if I were a lesbian. And if she were a lesbian. I guess we’d both have to be lesbians for that to work. Regardless, she made a pretty great friend. - Temple West
In great attempts, it is even glorious to fail.
It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames. - Clifford Stoll
ownergy= ownership + energy. A word i coined together to mean working with a clear sense of ownership and energy to achieve great success. Brimekonsult. - brimekonsult
We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things. - Martin Luther King Jr.
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. - Leo Tolstoy
When a great man stands on a land for a moment, the land becomes not just a great land for a moment, but a great landmark! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office. - Warren G. Harding
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. - Oscar Wilde
When you find the way to empower others, you will find that you are a great leader. - Debasish Mridha
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great. - Cher
With great power, comes a great need to nap. - Nico Di Angelo
Most often simplicity defines the true beauty of a great life. - Debasish Mridha
Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.
Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same. - Lois McMaster Bujold
Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body. - Cher
I am a great success, not because of what I have, but because, through service, I found enduring happiness. - Debasish Mridha
Fearing failure is fearing life. Failure is a great way to learn from life. - Debasish Mridha
Great achievers are great thinkers and great thinkers, are great achievers. - Auliq-Ice
If you want to be great, see greatness in others and appreciate it with your whole heart. - Debasish Mridha
Good words alone does not make a person good, but good deeds makes a person great. - Gugu Mona
I will do" gives you a great chance to win; "I will try" gives you a great chance to lose. Pick your words wisely. - Farshad Asl
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
Our human inventions astound, our technological advancements are staggering,and we have amassed great wealthbut, it is only through Love that hearts are transformed, respect is fostered, and lasting peace achieved... - Kate Mullane Robertson
Every woman is called to lead somebody somewhere to do something great! - Dr. Gail Hayes
People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think. - C. JoyBell C.
Work enthusiasm.Give your very best in all that you do.It is a great gift to yourself and world. - Lailah Gifty Akita
With great vision, strong determination, and persistent action, everyone is capable of achieving greatness. - Debasish Mridha
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward
Positive thinking is great, if you'll take action. - Guy Harduf
From word to deed is a great space. - French Proverb
Forgiveness is the way we return what has been taken from us and restore the love and kindness and trust that has been lost. With each act of forgiveness, whether small or great, we move toward wholeness. Forgiveness is nothing less than how we bring peace to ourselves and our world. - Desmond Tutu
A bit of adviceGiven to a young Native AmericanAt the time of his initiation:As you go the way of life,You will see a great chasm. Jump.It is not as wide as you think. - Joseph Campbell
God gives much grace for great work. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th. - Scott Adams
Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.
The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last... The great battle of our time. - J. R. R. Tolkien
At the end of the day, if you have a great product and service paired with the wrong pricing strategy / business model, you don’t have a business. - Richie Norton
Most people can't understand why they want to read so much.Likeminded types understand that they wish they had more time to read. When studying famous intellects, a pattern emerges of phases of insatiable reading for several years followed by a personal transformation into great achievements. - Peter Rogers
Good books do not waste our time as most people do... collect a great quantity of books, build alibrary worthy of your noble soul, andspend without stint all the money necessary for it. - Cardinal Augustin Valier
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women. - Booker T. Washington
To be great at anything that you do, you have to love it! but also give it your all.. - Alcurtis Turner
You are great in Christ and you are powerful beyond measure! - Deaquelynn Williams
Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. - Henry Fielding
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it. - George Bernard Shaw
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. - John Stuart Mill
There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet. - William F. Halsey
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you. - Amelia Earhart
It is a great joy to work for what you want. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You can LOBBY anyone. It is the great equalizer." Chief of Staff Russell Jackson - Madam Secretary
We should bloom like a flower without reservation or restriction, but with all our energy, power, and great love for this world. - Debasish Mridha
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. - H.L. Mencken
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind. - Daisaku Ikeda
Know the history of the great ancestors. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You want a great life? Well, greatness is on the other side of that fu**ing wall... don't just go over it, go through it! What are you waiting for? - Steve Maraboli
What you think is your Karma. I hold myself to great Karma. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A great life evolves with gratitude. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Great love, great life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself! - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
One of the greatest dangers of great dreams in your youth is waking up to despair as an adult. - Tice Davids aka David T. Parker
When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty. - John Buchan
He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history. - Dave Malloy
I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it. - Sophie Scholl
Jesus is great -- is there a better role model? No. It's religion, it's the people who get in between -- the bureaucracy, you know. ... It's the way people abuse Jesus. Was there ever a greater victim of name dropping? - Bill Maher
None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that. - Dan Harmon
Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need. - Ken Rockwell
Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people? - Onyi Anyado
I may not have had a great background, but I am grateful because nothing could have prepared me for the future than the past I've been through. - Gugu Mona
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth. - Democritus
Peace is simple, but it takes great courage to be simple and walk the path of peace. - Debasish Mridha
True friends are placed together for the purpose of accomplishing great achievements that help others. - Ellen J. Barrier
Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story. - Evelyn L. Colon
I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things. - Ronald Reagan
Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics. - Simon Soloveychik
Never was anything great achieved without danger. - Niccolò Machiavelli
Blessed are those who encounter a mystery in their lives because they obtain a big opportunity to live the great joy of solving puzzles! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Society is composed of two great classes-- those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. - Sebastien Chamfort
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
...if only the comfortable prosperity of the Victorian age hadn't lulled us into a false conviction of individual security and made us believe that what was going on outside our homes didn't matter to us, the Great War might never have happened. - Vera Brittain
Broken Wind believed that we are traumatized as babies by intestinal gas or colic. The great shaman invented a technique called "gastral projection" to help release these traumas. His philosophy was simple: "To air is human ... but to really cut one loose is divine. - Swami Beyondananda
Only the great power of love can make you great. - Debasish Mridha
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. - Seneca
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle of existence. - Otto von Bismarck
Everyone writes the book he or she loves to read. Great authors write the books others love to read. - Chuck Miceli
A great story can change the world. - Stewart Stafford
They sounded really professional because they had two Vox AC 30 amplifiers. I also had an AC 30, so when you looked at it, three AC 30s, three Fenders - bloody hell, it must be a great band! - Tony Iommi
To be great is not a word but work that makes a word. - Auliq Ice
I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
I pray this new year will be greater, smooth and brings best aroma to our smelling, normal burning for toothpicks, blue colours for great celebration, unlimited joy from nw, then and beyound in JESUS name ★FEYIKOGBON★ - oladosu feyikogbon
Life can only be live with great courage. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't try to do great thing, but don't forget to do small things with great care and great love. - Debasish Mridha
Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' and it's sad, gay nostalgia. - Truman Capote
Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and come to know us, the more I believe they will come to realize that we are trying to exemplify in our lives and in our living the great ideals which (Jesus Christ) taught. - Gordon B. Hinckley
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The great symbol of Christianity means sacrifice and no one calls himself a Christian can evade this stark fact. - Elisabeth Elliot
I believe great things are ahead for each of us. Now we just have to go ahead and create them. - Tom Althouse
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. - Baltasar Gracian
Hard work is a prophet; it foretells success. Diligence is a prophet; it foretells great success. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If you complain about small calamities, Allah will give you great calamities. - Anonymous
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. - Beatrix Potter
To be a great man think like them and behave like them but do not repeat their mistakes - Mohammed Sekouty
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann
No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can. - J.S.B. Morse
If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Greatness is achieved, not only by doing great things, but also,by making the small things we dogreat. - S. Tarr
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, anew continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to bereleased and channeled toward some great good. - Brian Tracy
It’s a great privilege to not know where you’ll end up, just where you’re headed. It’s the only way to get there. - Brianna Wiest
Everything you do, do with great love.Make it a song of your soul,and beauty of your heart. - Debasish Mridha
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. - Daniel J. Boorstin
The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building. - Robert Collier
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. - Ernest Hemingway
If the great internet connects us all ... then why are so many of us becoming increasingly isolated? - Stephen Richards
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. - Friedrich Nietzsche
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France
A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching! - William Shakespeare
Most people find it difficult to understand purely verbal concepts. [...] We employ visual and spatial metaphors for a great many everyday expressions [...] We are so visually biased that we call our wisest men visionaries! - McLuhan Marshal
There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer. - Eudora Welty
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.
GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest. - Ambrose Bierce
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware. - John Muir
If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Hope is like a beautiful flower. If we take great care of our hope, life could be a beautiful garden. - Debasish Mridha
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. - Alexander Pope
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. - Albert Camus
Few great men could pass personnel. - Paul Goodman
That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons. - Dave Grohl
When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading. - Virginia Woolf
Pursue your dreams with great passion. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great. - Alex Harris
Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping. - Theodore Roosevelt
I think all great innovations are built on rejections. - Louise Nevelson
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort. - Joseph Conrad
All great writers share one thing in common:They finished their books. - M. Kirin
The love for literature is a great light. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I am great lover. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is full of great opportunities. - Lailah GiftyAkita
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
He was fingering his great horn. - J.R.R. Tolkien
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration. - Olive Schreiner
A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists. - L. Ron Hubbard
Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future. - Henry Luce
In this world, it is a great Self-effort to deliberately remain ignorant despite knowing, right? I deliberately remain ignorant in spite of having the Knowledge. - Dada Bhagwan
You build a great network by first offering your services to others, and by so doing, winning their interest. This is the foundation of building trust and creating a platform for them to invest in you in a reciprocal manner, such that it becomes a win-win situation. - Oscar Bimpong
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. - Voltaire
MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge. - Ambrose Bierce
When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. - Boris Pasternak
People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them, 'How do you think I got the job? - Dick Cheney
Greatness is found in great actions; it is found in humility. - Debasish Mridha
Another great contribution to science of Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (A) was his Theory of Light. He said that light reflected by different objects comes to us, but only a part of the rays enter our eyes. That is the reason why we do not see distant objects clearly. - Infallible Imam (A) (www.alhassanain.org/english/?com=book&id=721)
Human life is a great story written by the mysterious, mystical and magical human mind. - Debasish Mridha
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. - Herbert Spencer
Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her. - Daniel Nayeri
I will keep dreaming.My dreams have always come true.It is a great excitement any time a dream is fulfilled. - Lailah GiftyAkita
Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service. - Martin Luther King Jr.
There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. - Niels Bohr
It was like something lurking in the darkness within him...There is remained in the darkness, the great pain, tearing him at times, and then being silent. - D.H. Lawrence
People say everybody has a book inside them, so why not make your life a great story? - Martha Louise Hunter
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. - Charles Caleb Colton
Look at yourself from the space! You are very little, you are so tiny! But there is something big in you: Your great ideas! Even from the space they look big because they have the power to change the universe, to change the space! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Painting is a great outlet for those inner emotions you cannot get out any other way. - Carol Brearley
Winter reaches its peaknot when a great wind screamsfrom the top of its lungs, but when a lazy breeze whispers from the bottom of its heart - shivaraj konanavar
You don't need to be a great singer to sing, but you have to practice singing to be a great singer. - Debasish Mridha
It's better to have a million small religions with each one containing a great truth. Than one great religion containing a million small truths. - Carla VanKoughnett
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. - Psalms 139
God gives great treasures. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness. - Fontenelle
I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that. - Steve Jobs
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are. - Edith Wharton
The body is poisoned through the mouth, even so is the heart through the ear ... And even if we do mean no harm, the Evil One means a great deal, and he will use those idle words as a sharp weapon against some neighbor's heart. - Francis de Sales
If you knew how great is a mother's love, you would have no fear. - J.M. Barrie
Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become. - Robert Fanney
First achieve small things and you will achieve great things ultimately... and no one will forget. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Great mysteries inhabit the threshold of my being. - Fernando Pessoa
But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Great men are not always idiots - Karen Elizabeth Gordon
There are greater things to be achieved in every new year, and each and everyone must prepare themselves to be great, not by words of the mouth, but by alot of sacrifices. - Michael Bassey Johnson
The master of thinking is like a master of sword! He can easily win any fight with a high art and a great elegance! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Meditation, prayer and positive thinking are a great combination for making your mind your best friend. - Rishika Sharma
General belief is There is no real magic, only tricks but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all "There does exist a real magic". - Amit Kalantri
One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it with people we may not like or even know. - Meryl Streep
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women. - Muhammad Ali Jinnah
God has unlimited resources for every great work. Are you a willing spirit? - Lailah Gifty Akita
Life can be tough and harsh at times. That's what makes it great. Every day is a celebration of survival. - Jonathan Heatt
Perhaps great fiction is in reality, deep hidden truths. - S.G. Savage
It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Being inspired by a great personality is not enough. You have to take actions to succeed. - Debasish Mridha
All the great stories are about obsession and people who are obsessed. - Marty Rubin
Our children need to assimilate the wonder that is India when they are young, so that they imbibe the principles of our founding fathers and continue to build this great nation. - Shallu Jindal
Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. - François Mauriac
Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of. - Seneca
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own. - William Hazlitt
The great use of a life is to spend for something that outlasts it. - William James
The heart pointed to the brain and said with great disdain, Those who live their lives in here live the lives most full of fear. - Ryan Lilly
The bare knowledge of God's will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is like a winter sun, which hath no heat or influence; it doth not warm the affections, or purify the conscience. Judas was a great luminary, he knew God's will, but he was a traitor. - Thomas Watson
To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A leader is he who has a great vision and can inspire others to go along to pursue it with all great passion. - Debasish Mridha
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.
A great relationship is being with the one who compliments your madness instead of conflicting with it. - Marnie Grundman
Anything great is long in making. - Lao Tzu
No man was ever a great success traveling an easy pre-made road. All great things REQUIRE sweat, tears and maybe even some blood spilled to be accomplished. The average man walks the easy road, the innovators CREATE the road! - Levon Peter Poe
Happiness is there when you have great imagination and vision, when you take relentless action and love your creation. - Debasish Mridha
Be contented as what you are even if it is big or small, great or not, 'cause it's still a blessings. - Jillbert Sumbidan
seesth thou a man tha isn't GRATEFUL? He is a GREAT FOOL - Pastor Erukeoghene Taunu PET
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men. - Captain J. A. Hadfield
No great leader in history fought to prevent change.
Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process. - Joseph Priestley
Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility. - Dejan Stojanovic
The great ideas you met on your path are the genius sculptors which shape the shape your mind! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Live daringly with great courage. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Greatness always inspires you to be great. - Debasish Mridha
By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. - Sir Philip Sidney
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. - Tryon Edwards
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so is not to praise but to murder it, for the next step after that tribute will be neglect of the masterpiece. - John Erskine
Those that dare not to dream big are cowards, for they fear to expose the already great potentials embedded inside of them. - Auliq-Ice
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. - Katharine Hepburn
We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends. - Kami Garcia
I say 'girl' because I love to annoy people. I love the word 'girl'. 'Gal' is pretty great, too. I don't just want to be called a woman. It sounds like someone with a mustache. - Bette Midler
It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am. - Muhammad Ali
This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate. - Rudyard Kipling
I don’t know about you but I do know I am a great woman and a gift unto my generation. I am a blessing to the world and I have a voice to be heard. I will make a great positive impact in the world and I would be a great force to be reckoned with. That is the power I have as a woman. - Omoakhuana Anthonia
Without love, life will be a great mistake. - Debasish Mridha
Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands. - The Book of the Dead
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. - Henry A. Wallace
Nil Sine Magno Labore ("Nothing without great effort") --Motto of Brooklyn College - Tony-Paul de Vissage
It was cold, dark & lonely in the great cathedral-like chambers, with only coffins and corpses for company. - Billie-Jo Williams
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it. - Mencius
The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. - William Shakespeare
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. - Albert Camus
Cooking is great, but the meal that has been prepared for you with love is the best. - Stephen Richards
I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Mark Twain
Here we are at last. The Italian proverb says See Naples and die but I say, see Naples and live; for there seems a great deal worth living for. - Arthur John Strutt
A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. - Robert Benchley
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. - Plato
It is wise to learn from the great sacred-souls. - Lailah Gifty Akita
had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed.{Edison's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll} Thomas A. Edison - He
No matter how great your wealth of knowledge may be, it is still insufficient - Sunday Adelaja
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are. - Nicholas Chamfort
There is no better revenge than a great success. - Debasish Mridha
The price you have to pay to be great at something - is repetition. - Andrew Brown
A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders. - J.R. Rim
Great hopes make great men. - Thomas Fuller
If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. - Ann Landers
I’ll take a shower.Want company?Enough, Blake. Ayden stood and backhanded the big guy’s chest.Just trying to do my Hexy Knight duty. How about we carpool tomorrow, babe? You could sit on my lap. I make a great seat belt.Shut up, Blake, Ayden and I said in unison. - A&E Kirk
Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms. - Charles Caleb Colton
A great tragedy is occurring. Millions of people are dying prematurely. These people are killing themselves and they don’t even know it. - Tim Loy
You can soar with great wings far beyond the sky. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced of why I must retire! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project. - Joe Roman
If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal. - Unknown
Every wonderful quality "in" someone is waiting to be recognized in all of life's great symphony. - Donna Goddard
It is better to live with great faith than in fear. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create! - John Godfrey Saxe
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to wher we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition. - Ambrose Bierce
For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him. - Bertolt Brecht
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth. - W. Somerset Maugham
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say. - Sir Henry Taylor
You forgive me coz you are great; I'm too bad coz I still love you. - Navnath Godse
How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave. - Winston S. Churchill
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome. - Chuang Chou
Great leadership produces great success. Weak leadership produces failure. - Ellen J. Barrier
Awareness is a great neutralizer of negative emotions." Living Beyond the Five Senses - Teresa L. DeCicco, PhD
Walk through the past and learn the way. I am walking through the present, taking action every day. I am preparing for the future in a great way. - Debasish Mridha
But remember, great Good will, more often than not, lead to great Evil. - Amish Tripathi
Technology offers great communication tools. Social media helps make connections. And, heart to heart conversations take place face to face and not over email, Whatsup, Facebook or Twitter. Don't be deceived. - Ana Ortega
if you are not a fan of great consumer service, then you are not a fan of business ultimately not making you a fan of money. - K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate
Too much sleep kills great destines. - Adedayo Olabamiji
A great teacher not only teaches, but they also encourage and appreciate improvement. - Debasish Mridha
When a million little things go right, that’s called success. Failure functions as the great leveler. When things don’t go as planned, it’s humbling. It’s important to make mistakes along the way, or we would be impossible to live with. - Judy Frankel
With great power comes great responsibility.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot. - Bill Gates
Gods not looking for the next great Preacher or worship leader he is looking for a BROKEN PERSON WHO WILL BE FOUND IN THE PLACE OF PRAYER!!!!! - Joe Joe Dawson
Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would! - Ralph Waldo Emerson
...A world is supported by four things...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. - Frank Herberterbert
We may find great relief and inexplicable solace in purposefully looking beyond grief in order to determine the provision made within it. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
You can cover a great deal of country in books. - Andrew Lang
When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,' then I shall say, 'I am yours truly'; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave. - Susan B. Anthony
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. - Pythagoras
A great frustration in life is discovering that sometimes those who say something can't be done turn out to be right.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. - Nora Roberts
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. - Abraham Lincoln
A moment spent in Sorrow or a moment spent in Pain is a waste of a Great Treasure that you will never get again. - - RVM
Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great. - Paul Arden
Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture. - Italo Calvino
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. - Elbert Hubbard
The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him. - Robert M. Pirsig
Health is the great blessing of God. - Muhammad Zain
A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there - Alanis Morissette
If you are a good hacker everybody knows you, But if you are a great hacker nobody knows you. - Rishabh Surya
Deep within my soul lies a great light. - Lailah GiftyAkita
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion. - Martha Graham
He was neither rich nor great, young nor handsome, - in no respect what is called fascinating, imposing or brilliant; and yet he was as attractive as a genial fire, and people seemed to gather about him as naturally as about a warm hearth. - Louisa May Alcott
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind. - Samuel Johnson
A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. - Hesiod
The history of the world is but the biography of great men. - Thomas Carlyle
Great people never sleep because their dreams keep them awake and striving. - Terrance Robinson- Artist Educator Scholar Entrepreneur
Science has given us a great lie. It is this lie that ends the current age of faith in God. - Compton Gage
Be great. Get thy "Self". Know who you are. Beyond this body, and being. You are more than what you're seeing. - Fakeer Ishavardas
Everyone has it's own great triumph, has he own story with sadness, madness and reverses. That's how we are build, few are the people which share their story, most cases because of shame. - Deyth Banger
Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life. - C.S. Lewis
We’re halfway through another great time of the year. You should start to make little improvements to your lifestyle and thinking, your late. Start making a change now. - Auliq Ice
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. - Alexis Carrel
It’s great to be here. - A.D. Posey
As that great philosopher, Mary Poppins, once said, 'A spoonful of sugar makes the feminism go down. - Irene Ziegler
Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality. - Bede Griffiths
You don’t have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe. - Muhammad Ali
Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an incident at sea. - unknown
Every day solitude for a particular time period is a good way to refresh physically and is a great opportunity to rise spiritually! - Mehmet Murat ildan
If it's glorious to fail in great attempts, then #gloriousfail should definitely be a thing. - Brandon David Hastings
You may have a small body,but great strength.You may have an ordinary mind,but great wisdom.You may have a wounded heart,but great courage.You may have a weary soul,but great love. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. - Napoleon Hill
The great writers are great as they have big workshop of imagination. - Kishore Bansal
There has never been any great person who never met great trials and oppositions but their patience, tenacity, endurance and perseverance saw them to the end as great people - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. - Isaac Asimov
Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form. - Albert Einstein
There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God. - Paul David Washer
Great books live longer than people.They are gonna bury us all. - Patricia Nedelea
Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them. - W.H. Auden
A great mentor works on your character to be as strong as iron. - JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA
100% commitment is required for any great achievement. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Technology is a queer thing; it brings you great gifts with one hand and it stabs you in the back with the other. - Charles Percy Snow
Own your errors but never be consumed by them. If you are willing to learn they provide great opportunities for how not to do it a second time around. - Lennox D.Lampkin
How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike. They stood like the naked pipes of a vast derelict calliope, their mouths cut into frantic vents. And now the great hand of mania descended upon one hundred-throated, unending scream. - Ray Bradbury
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt. - William Shakespeare
We all have the muscle of creativity in our minds, but for it to consistently give great results it needs daily exercise. - Yusuf A. Leinge
Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants. - Esther de Wall
It made a big difference in my life to grow up with a dad who wasn't afraid of how great my mom was. - Steve Maraboli
Whoever has received knowledgeand eloquence in speech from Godshould not be silent or secretivebut demonstrate it willingly.When a great good is widely heard of,then, and only then, does it bloom,and when that good is praised by man,it has spread its blossoms. - Marie de France
Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art. - Robert Schumann
I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know. - Bill W.
Saving time is one of the great superpowers you can unlock in the modern era. - J.R. Rim
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
Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what. - Percy Cerutty
Lying for lying's sake is the inspiration behind all great art - Marty Rubin
A blind man's world is bounded by the limits of his touch; an ignorant man's world by the limits of his knowledge: a great man's world by the limits of his vision. - E. Paul Hovey
It is great to read. You will discover wisdom. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. - Denis Diderot
To be a great success, you must do two things without fear: love and share. - Debasish Mridha
Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness? - Lenon Honor
The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man. - William Blake
Your best - no matter how great - isnothing if you minus God from theequation. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel. - From "Taxi"
Great is truth, and all powerful. - Vulgate
Artists, especially writers, great writers, are the most honest people I know. There are deep confessions in their words. And if we're strong enough to expose the spaces between them, we find truths there also. - Darnell Lamont Walker
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way - Martin Luther King Jr.
Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey. - Salman Rushdie
There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. - G.K. Chesterton
Forget vampires, he laughed dismissively. Who wants to drink blood for eternity? What we have discovered is far more seductive and a great deal more dangerous… - Pat Spence - Blue Moon
‎Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. - G. Randolf
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent Van Gogh
Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?""Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering. - Paul Kalanithi
People think that those who commit suicide are against life—they are not. They are too lusty for life, they have great lust for life; and because life is not fulfilling their lust, in anger, in despair, they destroy themselves. - Osho
We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading. - Lailah Gifty Akita
There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great match for someone as bright and strange as me, but books were going to make it survivable. - Anne Lamott
Regardless of Sunshine or Rain, Be Thankful for another GREAT day…and treat Life as the ULTIMATE Gift.... Because IT IS :) - Pablo
To middle-class Americans who have paid a great deal for the last 12 years and from whom I ask a contribution tonight, I will say again... you're not going at it alone anymore - you're certainly not going first, and you're not going to pay more for less as you have too often in the past.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. - Carl Jung
Dare to dwell on great thoughts, you will be great. - Lailah Gifty Akita
When you are on a great mission, look simple;think and act complexly - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Whether you deny your wounds or see them clearly, they bring a great source of power because they lived in the same place as your heart. - Shannon L. Alder
Don't shun oppositions. They are there to position you well. Opposition is the great valley between great men and they that give up because of the arduous journey they may have to take through the valley. Don't shun oppositions; Position yourself with oppositions! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him. - J.R. Miller
Power and wealth only leads into great destruction. - Daniellewis
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace. - George W. Bush
With or without God, good decisions can be made; But only with God will great decisions be made. - Damon Thueson
It isn't what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you do for God that isn't self serving, which sets the stage for children to learn to care about something other than what is expected. - Shannon L. Alder
I wonder how you will feel if I hug you with great love and care - Debasish Mridha
The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them. - Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great deal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. - José P. Rizal
Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness. - John Updike
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small. - Corrie ten Boom
He said that the principal function of music was to organize the details into harmonies that were intended to make us forget that there was randomness all around us. The same, he said, could be said for great books. - Selden Edwards
To be great, practice simplicity and express humility. - Debasish Mridha
If a vast majority of the population identify and embrace the nation’s value system, then that nation is automatically great. Because they will live out these values in their daily life. - Sunday Adelaja
There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older. - Criss Jami
Writing is a great way of talking with an endless audience for never-ending time. - Debasish Mridha
Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The Lord is my rock, shield and great defender. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson
Not nail a great star to its track, . . . Tell when to go and when come back;. . . But open up thy heart to know What rainbows teach and sunsets show. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
we have an opportunity to do great thing in this world. - Jordan Hoechlin
When someone makes you a priority it is Great! When you make yourself a priority it is Brilliant!~ - Bluenscottish
What we do today means a great deal, though it may mean nothing tomorrow. - Marty Rubin
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. - Andrew Carnegie
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. - Bertrand Russell
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
for sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true that we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least? - Rainer Maria Rilke
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. - Edwin Percy Whipple
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth our powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. - Daniel Webster
Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind. - Jennie Chancey
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood - Otto von Bismarck
As we travel great lengths in this world away from home, most of us come back with a clearer view on what home means. And most likely it isn't so much about the place in itself, but more about the places and people that have made us feel AT home… - lauren klarfeld
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. - Chuang-tzu
To be great in life, you must be determined. You can only discover yourself when you are self motivated . - Osunsakin Adewale
No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. - Thomas Carlyle
To brighten your vision, look at the positive side of life with great love. - Debasish Mridha
We remember though all the firelit glowOf a great hearth's gleam and glare,And we looked for a space at each happy faceAnd the love that was written there. - Caris Brooke
Every hour of every day spent with him, the slow slope of falling for this boy in more than just a carnal fashion has been like slowly pulling the strings on some great tapestry. Every day the weave becomes tighter, the picture clearer, everything more complete. - A.L. Davroe
The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that. - John Burdett
Peace is truth, trust, and harmony. Peace is joy, love, and great care. - Debasish Mridha
Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace. - William Shakespeare
Be great, dwell on great thoughts. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience. - Richelle E. Goodrich
A humble man rises to great heights and an arrogant man falls deep into the pit he tries to dig for others. - Amit Abraham
Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome. - John Green
Big thinking precedes great achievement.
Discipline is a kind of divine hand for the mankind on the matter of achieving great successes! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The only true wisdom lives far from mankind, out in the great loneliness, and it can be reached only through suffering. Privation and suffering alone can open the mind of man to all that is hidden to others. - Igjugarjuk
Defeat is only defeat if we accept it as defeat. Victory often comes after defeat, because one was too stubborn to allow it to be their reality. In the trail of any great conflict you will see the scuff marks, where the one was beaten down, but they could not be taught to stay that way. - Tom Althouse
A little wisdom can lead to great understanding.A little curiosity can lead to great discoveries.A little talent can lead to great achievements.A little love can lead to great virtue.A little faith can lead to great miracles.A little opportunity can lead to great success. - Matshona Dhliwayo
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. - Charles Dickens
To overcome something great you must first learn to overcome your own fears. - Nikki Rowe
When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great. - Charles Bukowski
Fear is the killer of a great future life. - Debasish Mridha
I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again. - L.M Montgomery
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed. - Horace
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. - Alexis de Tocqueville
Great things seem complex and cause the nations to rush towards the minor things that seem easy to reach, hence, they perish. And again my memory echoes…my people die for lack of knowledge. - Blaise Tshibwabwa
A great book increases my heartbeat as if I’m prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths. - Carmen DeSousa
PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress. - Ambrose Bierce
The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters. - Confucius
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels. - Arthur Rimbaud
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time. - Leonard Bernstein
Pretend to be great; greatness will embrace you. - Debasish Mridha
When you graduate from "Being In Love" to "Loving Someone" you understand - Love is not about owning, Love is about wanting the best for them, It's about seeing or Helping them achieve great heights, with or without you. Love is not what you say, it's what you do. - Wordions
You can’t be a great leader if your heart is not filled with greatness. - Debasish Mridha
If all was told, supposing there lived a person who could tell all, there would be no mysteries left, and the would be very bad. Man cannot live without mystery. He had a great need of it. - Lame Deer Seeker of Visions
There is no great love than the love of God. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish. - Michael Bassey Johnson
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. - Vince Lombardi
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. - Marya Mannes
America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay! - Matt Groening
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid. - Samuel Johnson
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations. - C. E. Montague
Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mindset fuels behavior... Great lives, great relationships, great businesses, and great love stories are cultivated from within. - Steve Maraboli
Every woman is born with her own sense of style and idea of beauty. To stifle that is a sin as great as snuffing out a blossoming bud, a one-of-a-kind flower will never bloom again. - Toni Sorenson
Positive Attitude is a great mental strength and powerful winning tool. Success is an attitude. Even if you dont have it, you can develop it - Peter Isekiigbe DE Rock
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn's make a sudden move. - David Letterman
To walk in the footsteps of the great, put on their shoes. - Matshona Dhliwayo
We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the skies so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. - Johannes Kepler
I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods. - Salman Rushdie
Great struggles make for great stories. - Sanober Khan
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson
As to the roaming of sages,They move in utter emptiness,Let their minds meander in the great nothingness;They run beyond conventionAnd go through where there is no gateway.They listen to the soundlessAnd look at the formless,They are not constrained by societyAnd not bound to its customs.- Lao-tzu - Lao Tzu
Marriage is a great blessing, but it can be a great lesson - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Great things only happen when we love the thing we are doing. - Debasish Mridha
so far as you continue to entertain what makes you unhappy, you shall always dance to the tune of what will make you unhappy. A mindset change can cause a great change. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. - Danny Kaye
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. - Sophia Loren
The sweet and the sour: this is what makes great art. - Ward Jenkins
If you wish to be a great family-man learn philosophy of people, if you wish to be a great businessman learn philosophy of finance. - Amit Kalantri
A place where the mind can attain stillness meaning doing darshan (seeing with the intent of worship) of a great person who has stillness of the mind, can still the mind of other person, however the chit is not steady there. - Dada Bhagwan
Nothing great was ever acheived without enthusiasm.
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Everyone has a calling. Thus, everyone has the chance to do something remarkable that will make him great in the eyes of others. - Jawe Campos
I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that. - Ellen DeGeneres
Most people will be a great success if they focus on doing what is important and not what is urgent or pleasant. - Debasish Mridha
I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored. - Louis C.K.
War is a need by a country that wants power, but the USA is already great - Tim Clisch
Life is great with positive outlook on life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I would rather go swimming with great white sharks than wade in romance 'cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance. - Adam Young (Owl City), The Yacht Club
A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. - Otto von Bismarck
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. - Samuel Johnson
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Sometimes, somehow...I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,that mourns over terrible great sin done by men. - Toba Beta
I never liked hearing anyone say I was the new George Gershwin, because I knew I could have never even carried that man's music case. If George Gershwin hadn't died when he was thirty-nine years old, there is no knowing how much more great music he would have written. - Burt Bacharach
the severe pain and the great trials we go through teach us the real essence of great joy - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
Happiness, honor, and great estate,For those who patiently work and wait. - John Townsend Trowbridge
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
To live and love is a great fulfillment. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Great empires are not maintained by timidity. - Tacitus
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom - Sir Francis Bacon
God allows us to have a personal relationship with himself and he forgives and loves us as children. If God forgives our such great sins against his Son should we not forgive such little sins against ourselves? - Greg Gordon
Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same. - Yanni
Make it the ultimate purpose of your life to be a great success. - Debasish Mridha
To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die. - Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues
Stephen King is a great and incredible character. - Deyth Banger
There is no great genius without some touch of madness. - Seneca
Great artists have no country.
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. - Marie Curie
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. - Nelson Mandela
Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of ; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel. Johannes Kepler - Pythagoras
Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring. - Catherine of Siena
Start each day as a great adventure. - Debasish Mridha
Dignity is never silent. It has a voice, heart and soul. Truth and courage is its foundation. It will stand against the masses and speak the truth. Because every great person has always done what others found fear in doing. - Shannon L. Alder
Self pity is a curse , which may lead to indignant behavior., while a calm, non-competitive mind, achieves great feat. Competing with one self leads to blessing, while comparing oneself to others and then competing is a destructive path. - Henrietta Newton Martin -Senior Legal Consultant & Author
The gift of life is a great grace. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Great depth of beingness and creativity often come with great woundedness. - Kathryn V. White
Recognizing your own progress is a huge part of feeling motivated to do more. Your brain is a great tool for your success. It is hard at work and automating the new things you are doing even when you are taking a break. - Prince Akwarandu
Sometimes in the great soundtrack of our lives there are no words, there are only emotions; I believe this is why God gave us classical music. - Anonymous
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. - Benjamin Disraeli
Life in abundance comes only through great love. - Elbert Hubbard
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. - William Shakespeare
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser. - Keith Richards
The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else. - Frédéric Bastiat
lessons of medicrity, to a great extent, produce students of mediocrity - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Giving style to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Take me to unexplored paradise & one of your best islands, I want to cross the pacific ocean and make a great memory. Let's go to the eastern coast of the Philippines where the waves meet the sky. You know where it is! - El Fuego
If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence. - Shannon L. Alder
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets. - Steve Jobs
If a man does not die in the womb or perish at birth, God has a great purpose for him. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain
Men are not great by the virtue of their wealth, but by the wealth of their virtue. - Sunday Adelaja
The great lie that science has given us is that reality is material. - Compton Gage
Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included). - Karl Marx
Though the stupid have great capacity to direct the world because they are plentiful, the clever has a much greater capacity to prevent the stupid from halting the progression of humanity because - though they are rare - they are tactical and intelligent! - Mehmet Murat ildan
... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls. - Lev S. Vygotsky
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
challenges; the great wall between those who stand and those who fall - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A society with a great number of prisons is a totally failed society because it has terribly failed to create a marvellous society where crime is not something widespread but an exception! - Mehmet Murat ildan
i feel great when i used to speak with persons who believe hope - DINESH DEVIREDDY
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. - Martha Graham
I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. - Nelson Mandela
Life is a great novel, discovering your calling is the far better sequel - Carl Henegan
A great sense of humor is a great gift! - Diamante Lavendar
No matter the circumstances, I encourage you to go forward with faith and prayer, calling on the Lord. You may not receive any direct revelation. But you will discover, as the years pass, that there has been a subtle guiding of your footsteps in paths of progress and great purpose. - Gordon B. Hinckley
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. - Marilyn Vos Savant
Justice is like a great home cooked meal; it may not come at the ideal time, but when it does it is served and delicious. - Robert J. Braathe
You may not be a great success when you are too busy with life and forget to love. - Debasish Mridha
All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight. - Shannon L. Alder
Okay, we didn’t work, and allmemories to tell you the truth aren’t good.But sometimes there were good times.Love was good. I loved your crooked sleepbeside me and never dreamed afraid.There should be stars for great warslike ours. - Sandra Cisneros
The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. - J. K. Rowling
All great art is a form of complaint - John Cage
The key to being a great agent is treating everyone like a celebrity and treating a celebrity like everyone else. - Michael Houbrick
It’s a bizarre act of self-mutilation to say that ‘I don’t get on with science fiction and fantasy, therefore I’m never going to read any’. What a shame. All those great books that you’re cutting yourself off from. - David Mitchell
Life is a lifetime opportunity to make the right choice to be great. - Debasish Mridha
...and here is a bed of roses for the great king now beyond us and our petty little world. - Michelle Shen
I had a tumor. But it was great. - David Rakoff
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. - Theodore Parker
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. - Stanley Kubrick
Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
For [a product] to surprise me, it must be satisfying expectations I didn't know I had. No focus group is going to discover those. Only a great designer can. - Paul Graham
By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Love is a small word that brings great joy. - Matshona Dhliwayo
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. - Arthur Conan Doyle
To say that, I will not agree (will not accept) is great egoism! - Dada Bhagwan
The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced. - Robin McKinley
A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness - Chinua Achebe
The sacred souls with humility, seek knowledge from the Great Spirit. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Wisdom is a dreadfully wonderful gift,giving you great insight but terrible pain that you learn from. - Royal Cromwell
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat. - Plato
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. - George Bernard Shaw
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. - Joseph Joubert
Give yourself to a great cause, not only your possessions. - Debasish Mridha
Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it. - Ann Landers
Great compassion is the root of altruistic action, the object of amazement to the world;there is no greater source of help and happiness. - Dalai Lama XIV
Proverbs 16:3 "Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and He will establish your plans."A great reminder when planning out the school year. - Tamara L. Chilver
Fathers are the future's keepers, as it was in the beginning when the only begotten Son became Father to Man and the Great Circle of Father to Son; Son to Father began. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. - Mae West
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. - Dave Meurer
May you great success in all your daring adventures. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. - Charles Caleb Colton
Work hard,and you will earn good rewards.Work smart,and you will earn great rewards.Work hard and work smart,and you will earn extraordinary rewards. - Matshona Dhliwayo
True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius. - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something. - Mich Ehrenborg
It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos. - Ariel Gore
There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The sense of death is most in apprehension; and the poor beetle, that we tread upon, in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies. - William Shakespeare
You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth. - Niels Bohr
The weakness was the first feature, the other what will do if I was this character? One of the best questions ever I have asked, it's one great from it comes another and another... - Deyth Banger
great men take and overtake risk tactically - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Statements of ordinary people are ignored like poor freebies, statements of great people are accepted like profound philosophy. - Amit Kalantri
The blank page is the great equalizer and grand opportunity for continued learning and growth. - K.J. Kilton
CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses." - Ambrose Bierce
Believe is the gateway to great treasures. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Great dream or idea comes up when you are thinking of something other than yourself. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Knowledge may be power, but cake has great bargaining properties - Julia Seitz
Your [...] is a really warm older Hispanic lady who has a beautiful laugh and loves to hug. If you are even a little bit nice to her she will make you feel great and maybe cook you delicious food. - Amy Poehler
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. - Benjamin Disraeli
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever. - G. K. Chesterton
There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable. - Michelle Franklin
Great leadership makes ordinary people into extraordinary people. - Jeffrey Fry
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. - Carl Sandburg
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
When my son speaks of playing sports, I've always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the guy who owns the team. I've always told my son: most of the guys on the team will end up bankrupt with bum knees, but not the guy who owns that franchise. - Brandi L. Bates
When you take time to study and practice the word of God, you become like a barrel of great beauty, filled with the energy drink of love with which you inspire people to inspire other people! - Israelmore Ayivor
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are. - O. Henry
All divine power is within you to accomplish great things. - Lailah Gifty Akita
True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past. - Seth Brown
A great story is impossible to forget. - A.D. Posey
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. - Helen Keller
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. - Ernest Dimnet
It's important that I make a difference in some way. If it's performing and touching someone that way, that's great; if it's being a teacher and helping a kid understand something, that's even better. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.
Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion, great understanding goes with great compassion.
A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you. - Joseph Rickaby
My discourse leads to the truth; the mind is great and guided by this teaching is able to arrive at some understanding. When the mind has understood all things and found them to be in harmony with what has been expounded by the teachings, it is faithful and comes to rest in that beautiful faith. - Hermes Trismegistus
Courage is winning small battles with great honor. - Nathan S. Colestock
Devotion to God brings great delight. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed. - E. B. White
A great artist is always before his time or behind it. - George Moore
If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great. - Tom Hanks
The Bible is the great treasure for the curious sinner, fresh water for thirsty painting soul, the revealed truth for the true seeker or worship per,the unrevealed truth for the wrong seekers, a guide to the blind and eternal food for the hungry soul. - Ikechukwu Joseph
An ocean of shimmering love exists in your heart. Tap into it today and rest in the undulating currents of the great mystery. - Amy Leigh Mercree
A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out. - Jill Lepore
As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing - Glenn Greenwald
Nothing great was ever created without a great dream. - Debasish Mridha
Read the great books, gentlemen, Mr. Monte said one day. Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time. - Pat Conroy
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Honesty is a great thing, if tempered with love. - Osama Sarwar
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson
God raised Christ up to the highest position possible. Jesus is now our great high King, and we should not allow anyone to take His place in our lives, usurping His Throne room in our hearts, and minds! - brother Billy
Although it is great to know, it is better to be told, 'I love you.' Whose day can you make better today by simply saying, 'I love you?' Now do the thing you know better to do. - DeWayne Owens
In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival. - Chaim Potok
Triumphing over great difficulties can lead to great happiness. - Stephen Richards
On the way home I felt a great and simple sadness. I missed my dad. I missed him very much. - Helen Macdonald
if the storm of life gives you a big blow, don't worry, just give it a great smile and pursue to leave distinctive footprints with perseverance and tenacity regardless of how arduous the errand may be. It may not be so easy but, dare to win! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death! - Eugene O'Neill
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber
If your aims are lofty, your achievements are bound to be great. - Radhe Maa
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. - Rita Rudner
I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter. - Beverly Sills
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 all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton
There is a great fulfillment when you commit your life to lifelong learning. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part. - Ben Johnson
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young. - Bertrand Russell
Climbing would be a great, truly wonderful thing if it weren't for all that damn climbing.
Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Describing Robert Bunsen:As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest. - Henry Enfield Roscoe
Simplicity make no mans great, but makes life easier and not complicated. - Bradley B. Dalina
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. - Abraham Lincoln
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. - Helen Keller
Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The only thing that makes advice great is when you apply it and it works so try, try try. - Rob Liano
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance. - John Neal
While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland. - Charles R. Swindoll
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers. - Ashok Kallarakkal
Value them; they are pearls of great price - Kristin Cast
Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think. - Benjamin Disraeli
One of the bravest, grandest of human liberty the world has ever seen.{Darrow on the great Robert Ingersoll} Clarence Darrow - champions
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. - Mark Twain
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. - Petrarch
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun. - Leonardo da Vinci
When our passion for the Great Commission, becomes our search for the Great Politician, we know we're lost. - Wes Moore
Water wrestles great opponents,but has no hands,and tramples great rivals,but has no feet.It slips through our fingers,but can swallow entire towns.Wind also slips through our fingers,but can swallow entire cities. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. - Bryant McGill
No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Great minds believe they will succeed.Average minds doubt they can succeed.Small minds don't even try to succeed. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, the death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast. - William Shakespeare
To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious. - Samuel Butler
Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire? - J.R.R. Tolkien
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility. - Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
Custom is the great guide of human life. - David Hume
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. - Jane Austen
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. - Sally Koch
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil
It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there. - William Golding
The adversaries main goal is to confuse & discourage the great. - Auliq-Ice
If I saw my father's dead, great grand mother's dead and many other people's dead... So I can see and your's dead, I just see the planet without you. I just feel it, taste it, - it hurts me from this but this is the truth. - Deyth Banger
You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process. - Randall Munroe, xkcd
It would be great if a person could state with indisputable facts & figures as how many people have ever got a job or a business opportunity by liking an online thought/post of a rich businessperson. - Anuj Somany
My idea of a great night is just stayin’ home, reading or playing video games. I’m about as boring as they come, Sorena. I ain’t ever been into stress or drama or excitement. Shit, I’d kill for a nap most days. - Alisha Ashton
Hope is that great spirit that grant us courage to stay determined. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Great Literature is simply language charged to the utmost with meaning - Ezra Pound
You're off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting so... Get on your way! - Dr. Seuss
Great is the hand that holds dominion over/Man by a scribbled name. - Dylan Thomas
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study. - Woodrow Wilson
All great men face challenges in the pursuit of their goals. However, the challenges did not deter them for pushing forward and realizing their goals. - Lailah Gifty Akita
wisdom is great, but sometimes, those who think they are wiser than others can become the otherwise - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
To hear how much of a great human being you were even if you really weren’t open your ears at your funeral. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. - Leonardo da Vinci
Cross-country skiing is great if you live in a small country. - Steven Wright
Great necessities call forth great leaders. - Abigail Adams
There is no great companion like a book. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Commitment to excellence is a great habit; unfortunately commitment to mediocrity is also a habit. - Debasish Mridha
When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way - Sam Raimi
The Great Wall of Facebook:Having just visited the Great Wall of China, I'm thinking about the walls we build on FB. They are real. They keep people in and others out.Build your wall carefully by answering this question:What are you building your wall around? - Richie Norton
To speak only one language is to do yourself a great injustice. - Michel Templet
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid. - William Hazlitt
We become great, not by changing the world, but by loving the world and changing ourselves. - Debasish Mridha
Everyone wants to look great in the summer... Don't just dream, take action!Your journey to being a summer yummer starts today. - Steve Maraboli
There is a journey that’s waiting for you, you will make great discoveries, you will find treasures and hidden powers, it’s a journey divinely design just for you, Today be brave in self-love and start the journey within yourself, There God is waiting to show you his masterpiece of love. - Micheline Jean Louis
The great idea is the one that is either saleable or is worthy of imitation. - Amit Kalantri
One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment. - Steven Weinberg
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. - Henry David Thoreau
Exercising the Body is great, But exercising the Mind is the GREATEST. - Auliq-Ice
God's help is available for us to achieve great things. We must put our hope and trust in the Lord. - Lailah Gifty Akita
With great power comes great dissipation. - Timothy Poston
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. - Eugene V. Debs
It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation - Nelson Mandela
Standing on the shoulders of the great allows you to see further than everyone. - Matshona Dhliwayo
My mother, who taught me how to read and write and home-schooled me for the first 12 years of my life, whose presence shaped me as much as her absence did, who imbibed in me the values of empathy and fearlessness and hard work, looks down on me today with great pride. - Sharad Vivek Sagar
the sculpting of the brain’s circuitry during this period of brain growth depends to a great degree on what a child experiences day-to-day. - Lisa Lantieri
When love is new, it's brighter than the sun and 30 times as great as the force of the atomic bomb dropped and felt from your heart, but to some people it will slowly fade but to me it will always be the same. - Auliq Ice
True success is a silence inner process that can empower the mind, heart and soul through strong aspiration for great achievement. - Nur Sakinah Thomas
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Great ambition without contribution is without significance. The Emperor's Club - Steve William Laible
Reckless behavior, particularly in young boys, may be the uncontrolled expression of a legitimate, even Godly, desire to strive after great and noble deeds. And when the desire for adventure follows a God-honoring course, exciting things can happen. - Hal and Melanie Young
For a storyteller, an open ending leaves much room for imagination; for the inquisitive reader, however, it is a source of great anxiety. - Joyce Rachelle
I’ve had the great pleasure of meeting Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase, ex–Sex Pistols vocalist John Lydon once told Rolling Stone. I found him completely dishonest and totally likable, because he doesn’t care. - Chuck Klosterman
I'm a romantic and I kinda believed in this fairy tale. And in some ways I think that's always been to my advantage, because like if you can believe in something great, I feel like you can achieve something great. - Katy Perry
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time. - Abraham Lincoln
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn. - Elizabeth George
Those who dream big, and work hard, can expect great success. - Ellen J. Barrier
Maybe you and I can't do great things. We may not change the world in one day, but we still can change some things today, in our small way.
...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great magician is not more magical than other magicians; he is just more magical in his presentation. - Amit Kalantri
It takes great courage when you are suffering to see beyond your suffering to the clear relations between things, to the laws that cause and govern your suffering; it takes great courage to be ruthless with one's griefs. - Andre Harvey
Believe you are great and you will be great. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected. - John Locke
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends. - J. K. Rowling
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. - Edith Wharton
Prayer is not meant to be a burden or used as a badge of holiness. Instead, it is a gift of God that when used properly should yield great victory in our lives. - Paul Silway
Be kind! Give small things with great love. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
Creating light is a wiz; sharing that light is witty and protecting that light is a great honour! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The trouble when people stop believing in God is not that they thereafter believe in nothing; it is that they thereafter believe in anything. In this century, 'anything' has included Hitler, Stalin and Mao, authors of the great genocidal madnesses of our time. - Charles Krauthammer
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. - Mark Twain
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves. - George Eliot
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism. - Charles M. Schwab
We are given a great power, we should capable enough to handle it and use it fair and square. - Rhealyn
one big problem and a great paradox in the arena of life is the problem of where or how a person is now and what, who and where he wants to be or have tomorrow. Had it not be this problem, we would have been relaxing all day long - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you. - Walter Payton
There will never be "the right time" in your life to do a great thing. You must create that time and greatness will follow. - JohnA Passaro
There are good fathers and bad fathers, good sons and bad sons, good husbands and bad ones, but great friends are all alike. We choose them and keep them. We aren’t bound to them by anything but love. - Sarah Manguso
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There's a powerful transformative effect when you surround yourself with like-minded people. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you accomplish your goals instead of distracting you from them. - Po Bronson
A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience. - William Shakespeare
Wind has no feet,but travels great distances,and has no hands,but carries great objects. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! - Anne Frank
Unless you have great parents or some inspirational teacher from a movie that pushes you to follow your dreams, you can't expect a kid to be smart enough to realize they can do what they want with their life before they've been pushed through the school system into having an average life. - Dan Howell
The darkness, the rage. One allows you to see the stars, the other gives you a false strength. But in the end both of which bring great torment. - Rodrigo Oliveski
The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay. - George Stephenson
Being an author, writing a book was great fun. Publishing and marketing, not so fun. - Wynne Stevens
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge. - Erich Fromm
The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! - Matthew 6:22-23, NIV
Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in - Rasheed Ogunlaru
I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife. You could say that I'm resigned to the fact that this wonderful life that we get here is it. And having hit 60, it's a good time to get resigned to these things and not be too nervous or upset - and enjoy what great times one can have. - David Gilmour
Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood - Rudyard Kipling
The heart is a treasure trove.... it is filled to the brink with beautiful Divine gifts. Whoever dives into it, finds that an endless supply, as vast as the great expanse of the Cosmic Ocean.... and even greater than this! - Angie karan
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history. - William Hazlitt
Make nature your best teacher. With great love, learn from her the lessons of life. - Debasish Mridha
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. - George Washington
The three great acts are love, goodness and self-sacrifice. - Lailah Gifty Akita
To the world, most people are not remembered for being great parents. To the child, without parents, nothing great would have been put into the world. - J.R. Rim
These opportunities, then, gave these men the chance they needed, and their great abilities made them recognize it. - Niccolò Machiavelli
Persistence is the source of great strength. - Debasish Mridha
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who shows great respect for his mother, and the women in his life; will have respect for those he meets. - Ellen J. Barrier
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. - Washington Irving
I dug through my purse for the Glock. There is was, and I realized I'd never set the safety. I decided to consider this a great example of forethought rather than my being the stupidest gun handler on the planet. - Gini Koch
Great beauty is often perceived by human senses as pain. - Susan Kay
It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it’s happiness but pretty darn awful if it’s anything sad. - Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Set your mind on beauty, love, and virtue. You will be blessed, great, pure, and true. - Debasish Mridha
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. - Charles de Gaulle
Feeling sick, sad? Call on the Great Physician. You don't need an appointment; He will see you right away! - Evinda Lepins
May God give us much more grace eagerly devote ourselves for the Great Commission. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you. - Elmer Davis
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place. - Mark Twain
The credit Union movement..It is a great movement, worthy of great deeds, deserving of great loyalty.
...the power of grace can work great things in the human person, greater than we might have dared to hope...(pg.52 in The Examen Prayer). - Fr. Timothy Gallagher OMV
It takes a great reader to make a great book. - Orna Ross
Great mercy, great love. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Samuel Johnson
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
The hallmark of great dreams is not their possibility but their impossibility, and the fact that it is the very notion of the ‘impossible’ that inspires us to go and accomplish them anyway. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. - William James
The mystery that surrounded how their souls were tied, would certainly make a great read in decades to come, but for the time being though, they had to surrender and observe, as destiny played chess with their lives, eager to prevent them from running away from it. - Pertunia Lehoka
If we rated greatness by the influence of the great, we will say "Muhammad is the greatest of the great in history - Will Durant
I hope I died honorably. I have a great deal to atone for. - Eler Nersal - Lynda Williams
Find a great purpose of life and be happy. - Debasish Mridha
To steal and copy my messages, given by Babajiis a Testimony of A Great Raper. - Petra Hermans
Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality. - Adam Gopnik
Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old. - George Fabricius
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. - Arnold Bennett
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity? - Elie Wiesel
We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people. - Laura Preble
The sacred soul knows the sacred voice of the Great God. - Lailah Gifty Akita
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. - Marquis de Vauvenargues
If the great figures of this nation’s history were alive today, they would all have to say that they committed a felony when they applied for a job at McDonald’s. - Justin King
Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things! - Andrew Murray
Great poets are great copy editors. - Dejan Stojanovic
If you want to be great at something, be great at being your most treasured self. Life is about connection, and how can you give apart of yourself to someone; too hold onto, if you don't know which part they want most? - Nikki Rowe
Why can't life always be lived under the stars,' she said, 'with great music and family and friends? - Jan Karon
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God. - Søren Kierkegaard
Each day is a new opportunity. I chose to make this day a great one. - Louise L. Hay
when you see the problem as a more of you and less of people, you will find a distinctive solution to the recurring hurdles. Attitudinal and mindset change can cause a great change - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losing and making the other person win and have a happy face. Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others. - Swami Satchidananda
Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them becuase they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water? - John Steinbeck
Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement. - Ben Okri
You may not be a great success in everything, but every time you try you will learn something. - Debasish Mridha
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before. - Mary Shelley
When you're that age, you sometimes have a great enthusiasm that is very deep and very narrow, and that is something that has always intrigued me-- that world of the eleven-year-old that is so quickly lost. - Alan Bradley
a good philosopher always have great reading ability. - Muhammad Hassam
I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving. - Craig Ferguson
I can name the newscaster on The Simpsons, but I can't name my own congressman. And that's what makes America great.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. - Jane Austen
Whatever change you desire for the world, create that change in your own life. You are here for a purpose. Seek it out. Hunt it down. The greatest misery is to be purposeless. The great depression of our age is not economic, but spiritual. Our spiritual poverty is rooted in our purposelessness. - Matthew Kelly
To grow is not to timidly sit on some safe shore at water’s edge and clumsily grab whatever happens to float by me. Rather, it is to deliberately step into waters both calm and turbulent in order to wrestle great things to shore. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
A great hope fellYou heard no noiseThe ruin was within. - Emily Dickinson
To be a great success get busy with what you like but don't forget to love. - Debasish Mridha
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree - Vita Sackville-West
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. - John Henry Newman
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at. - Oscar Wilde
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. - Cicero
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. - George Orwell
For every Aruna story we hear there are hundreds of thousands that will never be heard, swept under the great rug of shame societies have so eloquently woven. It is up to us to speak up, to lift this heavy rug and reveal the ugliness it conceals. - Aysha Taryam
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. - Thomas L. Friedman
The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.
It is a great thing to know our vices. - Cicero
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. - Friedrich Nietzsche
If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about. - Harmony Korine
Placing religious beliefs above law is a great recipe for destruction of entire human race. - Ketan Waghmare
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence. - Seneca
The great masterpiece of Dada was the idea of having fun. - Marty Rubin
Inspiring leadership communication is not about great oratory or great charisma; rather it is about getting others to believe in themselves and believe in your cause, and then achieve more than they thought was possible. - Kevin Murray
To avoid the cost incurred in pursuing great things we opt for ease and blithely abandon great things. The sheer recklessness of such a pathetically apathetic trade-off will eventually cost us a life squandered, which in the end is the greatest cost of all. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Knowledge has a great power. Therefore, unethical use of knowledge can be extremely harmful. - Eraldo Banovac
Parents need to be lucky to be good in parenting; children have to be lucky to have great parents! - Amit Chatterjee
Happiness is a great big hug, hugging us from the inside. allow yourself to feel its warmth and grace - Micheline Jean Louis
A great failure in life: not appreciating what others have to give. - Marty Rubin
One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all. - Sun Tzu
He is great who confers the most benefits. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me.
There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs. - Diana Nyad
If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: ‘What’s great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!’ It will be about how the whole thing stands up. - George R.R. Martin
To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful, and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one that he has always known. - Carlo Rovelli
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret. - Barry Lopez
Zeal, if it be well ordered, is most beautiful in a Christian; but if not, it is a thing of exceeding great danger: as fire in moderation is most comfortable, but in extremity most fearful. - Nehemiah Rogers
He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness. - Mother Teresa
Strength we think to be a virtue in government, but we do not find our defense against disintegration either in arbitrary or in very great power. Indeed, we are inclined to see in both these the symptoms of an already advanced decay - Michael Oakeshott
How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that. - C.S. Lewis
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.
Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead. - Doug MacLeod
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not. - C.S. Lewis
My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that. - Larry Page
All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape. - Blind Melon
Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic. - Kurt Vonnegut
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. - Voltaire
Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled. - Frederic Raphael
Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual. - Alex Haley
Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life. - Debasish Mridha
Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. - Leonard Bernstein
Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you . The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought. - William Shakespeare
Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve. - Petar Dunov
The Christian life doesn't work because we are such great followers. It works because Christ is such a great Leader. - David McGee
God is a great illustrator especially when I look at the humankind; different races, different genders, different heights, different weights and different shapes.His illustrations are simply breath taking, full of details and very inspiring. His creativity is beyond great and He's a mighty God. - Euginia Herlihy
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. - Franklin P. Adams
You know the great thing though? It's that change can be so constant that you don't even feel a difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't know that you life is better or worse until it is. Or it can blow you away--make you better in an instant.
Even in the middle of a hopeless darkness a light may suddenly reach you; keep your hope tightly and this great hope of yours will strongly attract the light onto you! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The great thing about church is that it has people in it - and people can be tricky - Tyana Parr
I most likely like books which are out of my language... English... for example is a great example - Not my native language, but I enjoy the covers and how the words sound. - Deyth Banger
In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators. - Erol Ozan
When in life you are destined great, but fated to a humble background, it always gets really worse before it gets really better. - Darmie Orem
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. - Nikola Tesla
It feels great to be alive. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
When this low self-worth is hidden, one can understand why the person becomes hypersensitive to the opinions of others and has a great deal of difficulty accepting criticism no matter how warranted or gently said. - David W. Earle
It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper, richer, wider and is comic, whereas The Great Gatsby is a tragic novel. And I think all great art is comic art.() Stephen Fry - video
Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.
To misuse wealth is a great fault. - Dada Bhagwan
I live by great faith. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I don't mean to step on anyone's toes, and I don't mean to seem arrogant, but if you want to be foreverly remembered as anything great you have to live your life alone, hated, ignored, and character assassinated, and if you believe this to be true than you truely are a hater. - B.L. Kennison
Every great dream begins with a perspective; change the world with the power and strength within you - Kamal Khanzada
He who is great judges himself and sets his own standards. - Spirit Rain
The world is a much more beautiful and incredible place than you think, and each of us has a great deal of power to make it more so. - Oie Osterkamp
Anger has great strength,but no brains.Greed has many hands,but no heart.Fear has many titles,but no honor.Hate has many forms,but no soul. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Count your blessings and be grateful not a great fool. - Habeeb Akande
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. - G.K. Chesterton
The world will become only as great a place to live in as we make it. - Sharad Vivek Sagar
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause. - George Matthew Adams
Great part of being a grownup, you never have to do anything. - Peter Blake
A great leader fights with great adversity, suffers greatly, but courageously, and never forget to help others is his ultimate duty. - Debasish Mridha
Driving your car through deep pools of flood water is a great way of making your car unreliable. Smart people turn around and avoid it. - Steven Magee
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past. - Bodhidharma
It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others. - Lewis Carroll
Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians. - Ryan Lilly
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why /but the editorialists forget it /terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. - John Berger
There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present. - Iris Murdoch
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure. - Og Mandino
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. - Meryl Streep
Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience. - Amit Kalantri
If you really know how great a competition it is to enter into the Kingdom of God is, you would have increased your competitive power greatly in your pursuit for the Kingdom of God - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Where a mediocre mind finds adversity, a great mind finds great opportunity. - Debasish Mridha
However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great men are strong men with great leadership qualities. They inspire others to be loving and caring like themselves. By this their character is made stronger. - Ellen J. Barrier
A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. - George Eliot
What other people think is important to them. What you think has great importance to you. - Debasish Mridha
Great music is a great remedy for depression, but you have to drink it in with your heart and mind. - Debasish Mridha
Nothing great happens without a great idea. - Debasish Mridha
Every moment is a fresh new beginning, a wonderful inauguration of the great cosmic journey through the universe. We can do whatever we want. We can change reality at any moment. - Russell Brand
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.
Keeping the door that leads to your heart ajar is destructive as univited guests would move in and trample on your feelings, leaving you in great pains, but closing it always is a sure way to spot out the destructive and innovative guests. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it. - Louis Agassiz
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. - Slavoj Žižek
Always give chance for the things you don't want. Cause sometimes they turn out to be the great things you'll ever have. - Elyn Balongcas
Great men don't strive for greatness, theysimply do great works. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind. - Charlotte M. Mason
Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this "off with the head" attitude, which, I confess, feels great sometimes, but come on. Why do we paint everyone with the same brush? Why does it seem more & more we want people ruined rather than rehabilitated? - Whoopi Goldberg
You will achieve great success when you find happiness. - Debasish Mridha
You have a great potential.Explore your special skills. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them. - Leo Tolstoy
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. - Karen Blixen
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. - Confucius
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. - Quentin Tarantino
There is no great path to greatness than true service. He who knows how to serve from a true heart and spirit knows what it takes to be truly great - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The Great Way is not named; Great Discriminations are not spoken; Great Benevolence is not benevolent; Great Modesty is not humble; Great Daring does not attack. If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way. - Chuang Chou
Sometimes great achievements arrive much later than we expect, but they arrive, and they are great. - Sira Masetti
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world! - Neil Gaiman
But no sooner had morning broken than he took hold of his whip and ceremoniously stepped out to address his slaves. Each blow was liberating, it was like unshaking proof of the great lie of God’s existence. - Juhani Peltonen
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. - Fran Lebowitz
One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man. - Charles M. Blow
The love of all people except the French people, is deep in the mind of the great doctors of the French Republic. - Charles Maurras
The greatest and the best Christians when they are physically weak are more prone to an attack of spiritual depression than at any other time and there are great illustrations of this in the Scriptures. - Martyn Llyod-Jones
You are a great sacred soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. - Orison Swett Marden
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. - Orson Scott Card
The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic. - Emil Cioran
I’m more than this kinesthetic intelligence of us trapped in this great chain of being that belongs to all of us. - Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression
Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere. - Jan Pinkava Ratatouille
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace. - Monica Fairview
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. - William Allen White
I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority. - Emil Cioran
Always have there been great numbers of individuals who were very much eager to fight for good causes. Always there were these, but then there were even greater numbers of trendies who would then become wholly and completely misguided in the efforts. - Criss Jami
We couldn’t believe our luck, and for a little while it felt like we were on some big train rolling down a hill, and all we cared about was how great it felt to be going fast. - Meg Rosoff
Modern invention has been a great leveler. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance. - Ivor Brown
I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. - Dave Barry
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. - Anatole France
What a great and happy place the world was! But you had to be big and grown-up before you could do just what you liked. - Neil M Gunn
Ther is nothing called a great quote, rather the one which makes your heart to take a dip in river Ganges. - Srikanth Kosuru
If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life. - Boyd K. Packer
Not all gays respond to the same stuff. Would Alexander the Great have loved Auntie Mame? - Bruce Bawer
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives - Vernon Howard
Peace is a butterfly Flying flower to flowerWith a song in her heartBut a great love for the beautyWith a great purpose and duty. - Debasish Mridha
Stop regretting relationships that once brought you great joy. - Joseph Simmons
It takes a very great intelligence to breathe logical meaning into meaningless ideas. - Milan Kundera
Studying the rule of law won't make a great litigator. It is the act of trying cases in real courtrooms with real plaintiffs and defendants and judges and juries, week after week and year after year that develops lawyers into top trial attorneys. - Marian Deegan
Debt is great source of inner unhappiness. - Debasish Mridha
We give thanks to God, who delivers us, from great distress. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be. - Henri-Frederic Amiel
Though sorrow may impede my heart,It is of great love to have known you. - C. Elizabeth
At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. - Mark Twain
They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going. - Zelda Fitzgerald
He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building. - Niccolo Machiavelli
The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies. The most gigantic intellect may be dwarfed by being cabin'd, cribbed and confined. It requires a great country and great circumstances to develop great men.
God has permitted the great lie for a short time only. That time is now coming to an end. Believers in the lie! You have been raised on the milk of your concrete beliefs. Now it is time for you to be weaned to partake of the solid food of the new age, the "New World Order. - Compton Gage
We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. - Chuck Palahniuk
Death is a great tyrant;no one can overthrow him.Life is a priceless ruby;no one can afford it. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A person's reputation can be appealing towards others if he or she understands the great values of ethical behavior. - Saaif Alam
People fail 2 ways: 1) don't know what to do 2) don't do what they know; therefore, great leaders must educate and inspire. - Orrin Woodward
Great future through ignorance often ends in great regret because God often times gives us what we need in a package we do not want. - Peter Isekiigbe DE Rock
To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable. - Christian D. Larson
What separates a great dream chaser from a good one is the volume of value that is given. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi
I'm blessed when someone who I loved and trusted dropped me off, because I have a good choice to think and great lesson to learn - Sivaprakash Sidhu
Lost in a book is a great place to be found. - Shannon Taylor Hodnett
Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are, in Philadelphia, now. - Russell H. Conwell
If you do build a great experience,clients tell each other about that.World of mouth is very powerful. - ravi chauhan
The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity. - Alfred A. Montapert
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great. - Bryan Way
THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Courage is instinct, and heroes are born in the moment. Trust yourself to be great, I do! - D.C. Akers
Every person may not be great, but there is some greatness in every person. - Debasish Mridha
You become great when you are eager to find and nourish greatness in the hearts of others. - Debasish Mridha
For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. - Herman Melville
Literature gives great light and great life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Life's adventures make great reading! - Denise Robbins
Historians are great gossips at a high level. - Marian Schlesinger
Great achievements are nothing more than a collection of small accomplishments. - Justin Young
In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them. - Napoléon Bonaparte
People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric advanced technology and great civilizations of wilier races. I just can't wait to see their faces at time the truth is revealed. - Toba Beta
The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself. - G.I. Gurdjieff
Great treasures bring out great greed in the hearts of men and great greed has been the downfall of many nations. - from "Opoponax Dreams - Genieve Dawkins
Child, if such folks awe you, then picture them on the lavatory, straining, constipated. They will at once seem small, pathetic, manageable." And she whispered to me a great, universal truth: "THE BOWELS ARE GREAT LEVELLERS. - Angela Carter
Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. - Jonathan Haidt
...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist is a militant atheist. I suppose he is interested in arguing about the existence of God. I am not. It was once quipped that there is no God and Dirac is his prophet. Linus Pauling - Paul Dirac
God sovereignly controls every detail of your life, which should be a great comfort to you. - Jim George
All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird. - Mehmet Murat ildan
We were created with great beauty. We must strive to look our best at all times. It's a gift we give to others. - R.J. Francis, from The Orphan's Secret
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill. - Samuel Butler
The great discoveries are usually obvious.
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment in history or nothing happens. - Coretta Scott King
When you empower others to be great, you become a great leader. - Debasish Mridha
The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science. - James Bridie
There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope. - Woody Allen
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. - Margaret Fuller
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord. - Sallust
And remember, it truly is a great Life - Ronald Edward Jones
I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need. - Corey M.K. Hughes
The secret code of success is patience,a virtue that can not be replaced. It takes time to build great dreams. - Bernard Kelvin Clive
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. - Miguel de Cervantes
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber. - Elbert Hubbard
When life gives you the gift of a great story, to not partake in the telling of that story would be a crime against humanity. - A.D. Posey
If someone tells you you're not beautiful, turn around and walk away so they canhave a great view of your fabulous ass. - Miley Cyrus
Be great in all you do. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. - Herodotus
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. - George Orwell
We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers. - George W. Bush
Nothing is there when you're not here.So love yourself and take great care. - Debasish Mridha
You want to create a country with millions of great magicians? Then let the free thinking prevails everywhere. And thus creativity will increase and creativity is the greatest magician in our universe. - Mehmet Murat ildan
I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly. - Criss Jami
Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women. - Lemony Snicket
Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
To live a great life, focus and do what makes you happy. - Debasish Mridha
I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy. - Albert Einstein
Life is made up of a few moments all strung together like pearls. Each moment is a pearl, and it is up to us to pick the ones with the highest luster. If we do not have time to do great things, take a few gentle moments and do small things in a great way. - Joyce Hilfer
Working to become excellent at what you want, raises your confidence, charisma and develops courage. As you work to become top notch, it also gives you a great reputation at what you do. - Mark F. LaMoure
Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain. - Henry James
One of the benchmarks of great communicators is their ability to listen not just to what's being said, but to what's not being said as well. They listen between the lines. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD
Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up. - Vladimir Nabokov
It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests. - C.S. Lewis
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. - Mae West
For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration. - Joseph Epstein
Great thoughts, great soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
…they speak great swelling words of emptiness… - 2 Peter 2 18
It is not very difficult to build world peace. We just have to be kind to each other and treat each other with great care. - Debasish Mridha
Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. - G.K. Chesterton
A dictator in a country is a big threat to the whole humanity; a democrat in a country is a great hope to the whole world! - Mehmet Murat ildan
As individuals, great writers from Villon to Diderot to Voltaire toRousseau to Byron or Shelley have often shown themselves to beirresponsible, selfish, mean or sometimes even cowardly people. Their lives were drab or self destructive or reckless.We read them for their Words, not for their deeds. - Max Vegaritter
I, the great and powerful D.S. will create a harem for all the women in the world!!!! For a woman, no greater joy exists in the entire universe than to fuck me, the ultimate sex symbol!!! - Kazushi Hagiwara
A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it’s irrelevant. But to the right audience, it’s a passion. - David Brier
We are searching for the most humble man on the planet so that we can award him with a great honor but we are having trouble finding the guy. - R.A.Delmonico
Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths. - Jonathan Stroud
Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. - Marcus Claudius Tacitus
She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment. - Émile Zola
The great are eternally at the mercy of tiny men. And also, tiny madwomen. - Salman Rushdie
I am in great mood. - Lailah Gifty Akita
There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A leader becomes great by inspiring others to do great things. - Debasish Mridha
I've Learned To Accept that one is never as great or terrible as they are made to feel, and the truth lies somewhere in between. - K.J. Kilton
Exercise is a great leveler. It doesn't matter how rich you are, you can't just buy your way into a great body. You have to do the work. I find that comforting. It's one of the few things in life where we're all on a level playing field. - Vinnie Tortorich
I was just sitting and just realised how much she loved meThe least I should have done was fight for her, for our winThis is a great mistake about love but I have learnt from itHeart break sucks but it eventually gives you much to eat - D WordSmith
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love. - Spanish Proverb
Feeling low is normal, or sometimes, healthy. A lot of great things this world has witnessed were kickstarted by men when they felt low. - Swaraj Priyadarshi
Great soul, great spirit. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Enjoy every day and make each day great - Ron Law
It is not our job to remain whole.We came to lose our leavesLike the trees, and be born again,Drawing up from the great roots. - Robert Bly
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. - Oscar Wilde
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. - Ronald Reagan
It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances. - Daya Kudari
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. - Sid Ziff
I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person. - Tim Duncan
I have a number of questions. If I had half as many answers, I’d be in great shape. - Catherine Ryan Hyde
I wake up every morning thinking about all the great things I am going to accomplish that day, and I go to bed every night thinking about all the even greater things I’m going to have to accomplish tomorrow to make up for the nothing I did today. - John A. Ashley
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. - William James
Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A sunshine can bring opportunities for a person's life and you should never be disappointed if it shines on you because if you disregard it, you will miss the moment of great luck. - Saaif Alam
The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. - Boris Pasternak
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. - Vincent Van Gogh
With great humility brings great grace. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Dance on the stage of life with love in your heart, a smile on your face, and a great vision in your mind. - Debasish Mridha
What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy. - Junot Díaz
Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives - Charlotte Gray
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - W. Somerset Maugham
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. - Thomas Carlyle
All great achievements require time. - Maya Angelou
I wasn’t finished with you, Pru, he said softly. I had plans.Oh boy. Maybe I had plans, too.Yeah? Closing the gap between them, one of his hands went to her hip, the other slid up her back to anchor her to him. Tell me. Tell me slowly and in great detail. - Jill Shalvis
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. - Baltasar Gracian
Only a person who perceives that all human beings are important can become a great leader. - Auliq Ice
I find great happiness in my relationships with old friends, living mirrors that reflect histories of laughter and sorrow, triumphs and failures, births and deaths, on both sides. - Diane Von Furstenberg
I bet you to believe me when I say again that we do not need a great house, Sarah. We only need a great love. - Stephanie Grace Whitson
TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART. - M. Kirin
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. - Ernest Hemingway
A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation, and further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind. - Daisaku Ikeda
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. - David Letterman
The tongue and pen are great outlets for wrath and resentment. (1849) - Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
Focus is the ability to say no to the GOOD so you can fulfill the yes you said to the GREAT. - Orrin Woodward
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.
Much has been made about the death of the novel and the end of literature as it’s seen to be assailed by technology, by the web, by the many and varied new forms of entertainment and culture. I don’t share that pessimism because I think it is one of the great inventions of the human spirit. - Richard Flanagan
Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world? - William Makepeace Thackeray
Great artists need great clients. - I. M. Pei
Great writers teach as well as entertain. - Beem Weeks
The distance you walk on water depends on how great your faith is. - Matshona Dhliwayo
When you're alive hope is smiling for a great life.So don't delay, hope for the best, take actions and have a great life. - Debasish Mridha
Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's the power of great literature. - Byron Ortiz
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Great leaders think beyond yesterday, deal with the issues of today and focus on addressing the problems of tomorrow. - Gift Gugu Mona
All human behaviour, language, thoughts, feelings, actions, and consciousness emerge from this massively interconnected network of neurons. Each neuron is pretty dumb; it either fires in a certain situation or it doesn’t, but out of this mass dumbness comes great cleverness. - Trevor Harley
A great difference between the womb and the tomb is the w and the t! We waist great and precious time as we journey from the womb to the tomb; in the end we shall remember the w and the t! Hmm! The wasted time! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark - Thomas Hobbes
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. - Robert Burton
The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.
I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days. - Lois McMaster Bujold
Greatness is the flower of great adversity. - Debasish Mridha
Motivate yourself, you can be great. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God takes great joy in the passionate romantic love between a husband and wife. - Jim George
Love harmony and peace everywhere.It is our hope for our great future. - Debasish Mridha
Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy. - Bertrand Russell
You learnt a great deal, Louisa, and so did your brother. Ologies of all kinds from morning to night. If there is any Ology left, of any description, that has not been worn to rags in this house, all I can say is, I hope I shall never hear its name - Charles Dickens
A great snow is the calm death of struggle and the transformative birth of life. - A.D. Posey
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. - Ronald Reagan
That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.
101 Reasons Why its great to be a woman : We have three times the amount of potential sick leave. Take into account all those days you are unable to work owing to pre, during and post menstrual tension. - Summersdale Publishers
Every great soul nurtures strong positive mental power. - Lailah Gifty Akita
So many people shall regret three great things tomorrow; things they did, things they did not do and things they were yet to do! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Five rules to follow to be a great leader: 1. Be curious. 2. Serve others. 3. Be purpose oriented. 4. Be adaptive. 5. Be positive. - Debasish Mridha
Nothing great can be achieved without great love. - Debasish Mridha
All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind. - Winston S. Churchill
Every great achiever overcame the greatest obstacles. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but they want to learn magic after they see a great magic effect. - Amit Kalantri
Great things take time; that is why seeds persevere through rocks and dirt to bloom. - Matshona Dhliwayo
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. - Orison Swett Marden
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think. - William O. Douglas
Power is the great aphrodisiac. - Henry Kissinger
We stand at the onset of a great age of adventure—and always shall, so long as we keep doing science. - Timothy Ferris
Although you and I have crossed each other, we two are destined by the heavens to be together. There will come a day when the two of us will join together to do great things. But until then, you must wait and endure any hardship and danger that may come your way. - Auliq Ice
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side. - Theodore Roosevelt
Behind every great man is a man greater, his father. - Habeeb Akande
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. - Benjamin Disraeli
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are. - Henry Fielding
Are you satisfied with you? Great! Are not you? Let's start in the mirror... - Da Anunciação Marco
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. - G.K. Chesterton
Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.
I was working in a parking lot, which is a great place to learn the guitar. I sat in the booth and practiced all day long. And only two cars were stolen while I worked there.
Every great dream has no defined parameters, out of fear we set the limitations. - Wayne Chirisa
Great artists are great not because of their great sufferings, but because of their joy in creating. - Marty Rubin
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other. - Meryl Streep
I realize parenting is hard and boring at times and a four-hour break would be super, but this is the job we signed up for. Some days it sucks, but most days it's great. - Jen Mann
The journey of life requires alot of enthusiasms, great passion and commitment. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. - Washington Irving
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.
When I looked at myself through the prism of awareness, great tears came as I connected with how this wounded child felt. - David W. Earle
Set your soul to greatness. You will be great. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The light of a great man shines for generations to come. - Auliq-Ice
There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible. - Sean O'Casey
Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality. - T.A. Barron
When a leader has an attitude of gratitude, it can create great differences in the lives of others. - Debasish Mridha
The problem with social media is that it's great for your ego, but terrible for your sanity. - Andrena Sawyer
Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution - Jeremy Aldana
With great love comes occasions of pain. You can't skip the pain; without it, you would never know what a precious thing love is. You wouldn't know to hang onto it. You wouldn't know to fight for it. You embrace the pain because the love makes it all worthwhile. - Theresa Smith
You need two things to write a great book: imagination and inclination. Without one, your book will be boring; without the other, your book won't get finished at all. - Ellie Firestone
Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! - Bible
It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality. - Og Mandino
I saw [Linus Pauling] as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century’s greatest chemist. No doubt about it. - Max F. Perutz
Before embarking on important undertakings, sit quietly, calm your senses and thoughts, and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit. After that you should utilize all necessary material means to achieve your goal. - Paramahansa Yogananda
If there are no great teachers, how can we expect a great future? - Debasish Mridha
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. - Sir Winston Churchill
Yeah, yeah, whatever. I have great taste in music, we can listen to Justin Bieber and Black Eyed Peas and Nickelback all day long! - salifiable
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I don’t have perfect teeth. I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything. - Emma Watson
you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment. - H. Ross Perot
You have a great advantage as a writer, Monsieur,' said Poirot. 'You can relieve your feelings by expedient of the printed word. You have the power of the pen over your enemies. - Agatha Christie
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic! - Thomas Mann
For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted. - Hayley Williams
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. - Abigail Adams
We can do no great things; only small things with great love. - Mother Teresa
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he as a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. - Harold Bloom
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A free society fertilizes the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow. - Henry Steele Commager
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