Quotes with greatness-great

Quotes 1861 till 1880 of 2249.

• There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

  ― Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

  ― Henry van Dyke
  American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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• There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

  Source: ULTIMATE Collection of Rudyard Kipling (2015) 474

  ― Joseph Rudyard Kipling
  English writer (1865 - 1936)
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• There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

  ― John Keats
  English poet (1795 - 1821)
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• There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.

  ― George Moore
  Irish writer (1852 - 1933)
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• There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me - I always feel that they have not said enough.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  ― Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.

  ― Carl Gustav Jung
  Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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• There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

  ― Anna Quindlen
  American author and journalist (1952 - )
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• There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

  ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

  ― Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

  ― Robert Frost
  American poet (1874 - 1963)
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• There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.

  ― Auberon Herbert
  British writer, theorist, philosopher
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• There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

  ― Louis Kronenberger
  American literary critic and novelist (1904 - 1980)
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• There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

  ― Olive Schreiner
  South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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• There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

  ― Charles Dudley Warner
  American writer (1829 - 1900)
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• There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

  ― Carol Leifer
  American comedian, writer, producer and actress (1956 - )
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• There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

  ― George Herbert
  English poet (1593 - 1633)
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• There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

  ― Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• misunderstanding
• inspiration
• individual
• compliment
• frequently
• embarrass

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