Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 2249.
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To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.''
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To be amused by what you read, that is the great spring of happy quotations.
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To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Source: Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) 1, 5 -
To be great is to be misunderstood.
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To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.
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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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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.
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To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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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.
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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.
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To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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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.
Source: 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.
Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 108
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