Great Quotes
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"There’s no reason to not be humble, because as great as you may be, you can always be greater."
"I ordered a beer and then I ordered another beer, because why finish one when I can finish two? Having only one is great for love, but bad for beer."
"You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. A true hustler jogs during the day, and sleepwalks at night."
"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."
"We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends."
"Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you."
"What’s the opposite of start? Would the average person think stop or finish? The answer may reflect the difference between a winner and a loser."
"Not every hen lay eggs. Not every hen that lays eggs gets them hatched. Not everyone born with greatness becomes as such. Go, hatch your eggs."
"God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty."
"People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never."
"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."
"Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."
"Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events."
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution."
"It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me."
"And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father."
"One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."
"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."
"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'"
"I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone."
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody."
"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one."
"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."
"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."
"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."
"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."
"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night."
"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"
"Because of a great love, one is courageous."
"The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility."
"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."
"A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness."
"And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people."
"As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me."
"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation."
"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."
"Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay."
"Don't be humble... you're not that great."
"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
"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."
"The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one."
"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."
"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."
"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
"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."
"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."
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