Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 2164.
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To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
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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 -
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.
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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 -
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
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To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
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To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.
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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
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To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
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To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.
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To talk without effort is, after all, the great charm of talking.
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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.
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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.
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