Quotes with great-great

Quotes 1861 till 1880 of 2159.

  • Vauvenargues To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Leonard Bernstein To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
    Leonard Bernstein
    American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist (1918 - 1990)
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  • John Tillotson To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.''
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Charles Edward Montague To be amused by what you read, that is the great spring of happy quotations.
    Charles Edward Montague
    English journalist and writer (1867 - 1928)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
    Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) 1, 5
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To be great is to be misunderstood.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Don Piatt To be great one must be positive and gain strength from your opponents.
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  • Mark Twain To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bono To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe 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
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Blair Underwood To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Plutarch To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.
    The Man Nobody Knows (1924) On Jesus, in Ch. 1 : The Executive
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • Adam Smith To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Joan Didion To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 108
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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