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Quotations on the topic of ‘great’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“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
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“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.” -Sigmund Freud
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“That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.” -Mitt Romney
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“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.” -Thomas A. Edison
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“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
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“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.” -Phillips Brooks
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“Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.” -Thornton Wilder
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“Show me a great actor and I’ll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you’ve seen the devil.” -W. C. Fields
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“There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.” -Dwight L. Moody
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“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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“The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.” -Michael Jackson
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“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” -Coretta Scott King
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“Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.” -Jan Peter Balkenende
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“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.” -Wilma Rudolph
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“There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.” -Clint Eastwood
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“Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.” -E. B. White
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“Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.” -John Wooden
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“I’m sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn’t on our radar screen. We were just making great software.” -Bill Gates
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“Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn’t construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn’t revolutionize the automobile industry that way.” -Milton Friedman
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“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” -Aesop
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“It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.” -Sun Tzu
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“Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.” -Morihei Ueshiba
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“It’s an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That’s always been a tug of war for me.” -Jodie Foster
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“Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.” -Marcel Proust
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“I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.” -Robert Benchley
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“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.” -Peter Marshall
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“The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.” -Martin Luther
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“The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.” -Voltaire
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“A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.” -Jacqueline Bisset
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“Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.” -Katharine Hepburn
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“It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.” -Jose Rizal
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“Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.” -Erich Fromm
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“Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.” -Oprah Winfrey
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“Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.” -Abdul Kalam
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“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.” -Joel Osteen
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“My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.” -Helen Gurley Brown
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“Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.” -Charlie Chaplin
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“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” -Charles Darwin
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“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” -Louis D. Brandeis
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“More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill – none have wrestled without pride.” -Dan Gable
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“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.” -Moliere
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“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.” -Robert H. Schuller
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“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
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“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
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“The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.” -E. W. Howe
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“Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.” -Martha Graham
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“A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.” -Frederick Douglass
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“Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.” -Paracelsus
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“The great object is that every man be armed.” -Patrick Henry
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“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” -Napoleon Hill
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“We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best…
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“Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.” -Dr. Seuss
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“Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.” -Leon Trotsky
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“America’s fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.” -Allen Boyd
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“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” -Clarence Darrow
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“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.” -Albert Camus
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“To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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“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 Spurgeon
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“Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.” -Thomas Paine
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“I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.” -John Wayne
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“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
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“There is a woman at the begining of all great things.” -Alphonse de Lamartine
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“We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.” -Robert Frost
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“He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.” -Steven Wright
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“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
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“When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“The great gift of Easter is hope – Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.” -Basil Hume
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“Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.” -Samuel Richardson
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“What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.” -William Glasser
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“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
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“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.” -Katherine Mansfield
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“I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.” -Nelson Mandela
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“Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.” -Lao Tzu
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“We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it’s surest support.” -George Washington
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“For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.” -Michael Jordan
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“France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.” -Johnny Depp
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“If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“A great figure or physique is nice, but it’s self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.” -Vivica Fox
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“Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.” -Jim Rohn
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“The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.” -Henry Van Dyke
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“Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“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
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“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.” -Aristotle
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“Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.” -Mitch Hedberg
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“Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.” -Mae West
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“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.” -Jean Ingelow
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“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” -Wayne Gretzky
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“There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!” -John F. Kennedy
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“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
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“Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly let him rejoice.” -Pope Paul VI
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“Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.” -Khalil Gibran
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“There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.” -William Shakespeare
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“It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.” -Muhammad Ali
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“The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“Presents don’t really mean much to me. I don’t want to sound mawkish, but – it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.” -Gabriel Byrne
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“Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.” -Winston Churchill
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“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
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“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.” -C. S. Lewis
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“The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” -John D. Rockefeller
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“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.” -Swami Vivekananda
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“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.” -Douglas MacArthur
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“My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.” -Mark Twain
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“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” -Confucius
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“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.” -Norman Vincent Peale
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“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” -John Steinbeck
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“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
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“It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“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
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“It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.” -Charles Kingsley
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“God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.” -Marcus Garvey
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“You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.” -Albert Einstein
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“I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.” -Huey Newton
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“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.” -Washington Irving
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“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” -Demosthenes
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“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” -Walter Bagehot
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“One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” -Jim Carrey
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“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
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“A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.” -Marcus Aurelius
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“Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.” -Fran Lebowitz
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“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“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
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“Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.” -Sallust
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“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.” -David Hume
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“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.” -John C. Maxwell
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“Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.” -Joe Paterno
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“I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.” -Cyrano de Bergerac
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“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” -Mother Teresa
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“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” -Robert Kennedy
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“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” -Socrates
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“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” -William Arthur Ward
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“The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.” -Thomas S. Monson
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