3 December 2020 Soren Kierkegaard The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
3 December 2020 Boris Yeltsin A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
3 December 2020 Omar Khayyam Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
3 December 2020 W. Clement Stone Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
3 December 2020 Saint Augustine Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
3 December 2020 Logan P. Smith It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
3 December 2020 George Orwell The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
3 December 2020 John Burroughs The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
3 December 2020 Donald Trump It’s a great thing when you can show that you’ve been successful and that you’ve made a lot of money and that you’ve employed a lot of people.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
3 December 2020 Colin Powell Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
3 December 2020 James K. Polk One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
3 December 2020 Charles de Montesquieu To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
