Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A great man is always willing to be little.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Meredith A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Epictetus A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A small leak can sink a great ship
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Marcel Proust All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Abraham Lincoln And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Winston Churchill Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Emily Dickinson Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Being is the great explainer.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • James Allen Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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